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Apotheosis of Hercules (recto); Sketches of Horse's Head, Horse's Forequarters, and Altarpiece or Ciborium (verso)

A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite (recto), and black chlalk with pen and ink (verso), on blue-gray laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite (recto), and black chlalk with pen and ink (verso), on blue-gray laid paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

possibly Anton Domenico Gabbiani (Italian, 1652-1726)
or Ciro Ferri (Italian, 1634-1689)
or possibly after Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596-1669)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Title

Apotheosis of Hercules (recto); Sketches of Horse's Head, Horse's Forequarters, and Altarpiece or Ciborium (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1654–1726

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite (recto), and black chlalk with pen and ink (verso), on blue-gray laid paper

Dimensions

25.6 × 36.9 cm (10 1/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block

Reference Number

1961.883

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