Linda and Sophronia Freed by Clorinda

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Elisabetta Sirani

Title

Linda and Sophronia Freed by Clorinda

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1658–1665

Medium

Brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized) and pink gouache, over black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in graphite: "Elisabeta Sirani"; inscribed verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink: "Tiarini"; upper left, in graphite: 'Linda and Sophronia /freed by Clorinda/from Tasso Gerusalemme lib[erata]"

Dimensions

26.2 × 20.5 cm (10 3/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.5489

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