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Ceiling Decoration with Four Fathers of the Church, Sibyls and Prophets

A work made of pen and brown ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on brown laid paper, perimeter mounted on blue laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on brown laid paper, perimeter mounted on blue laid paper.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

possibly after Pasquale Cati (Italian, c. 1550-c. 1620)
Unknown Italian artist
Unknown German artist

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pasquale Cati

Title

Ceiling Decoration with Four Fathers of the Church, Sibyls and Prophets

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1550–1649

Medium

Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on brown laid paper, perimeter mounted on blue laid paper

Dimensions

39.3 × 47.8 cm (15 1/2 × 18 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.3803

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