About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Circle of Giuseppe Cesari
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Title
- Angel Playing a Flute
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1580
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Medium
- Black and red chalk, with traces of pen and brown ink, on buff laid paper, incised
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Inscriptions
- inscribed verso, lower center on partial mount, in pen and black ink (in "Gurley" hand): "Giusepe Cesari - 1568 - 1640. / ("Il Cavaliere d'Arpino")"; inscribed recto of former mount (according to Gurley Card Index): "From the Wellesley Coll / Cesari (Giuseppe), called Il Cavaliere d'Arpino or Le Josepin, born 1560 according to certain biographers, in 1568 according to other authors, died 3d of July 1640, - (Roman School.) Pupil of his father and of Cristofano Roncalli"
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Dimensions
- 20.5 × 13.6 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1922.25
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/80936/manifest.json
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