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Drawing, Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini. It is dated 1700–29 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and ink, brush and black wash, charcoal on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
31.6 × 21.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Watermark: three crescents over backwards S form
It is signed
Signed in pen and ink, lower left: Franceschini Bologniese
It is inscribed
Inscribed in pen and ink, lower right: D.5; verso: No. 220 / g. 120 [struck out]
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for a Ceiling Painting, Venus, Cupid, and Putti; Designed by Marc Antonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648 – 1729); Italy; pen and ink, brush and black wash, charcoal on paper; 31.6 × 21.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-6430
