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Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, edge mounted on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, edge mounted on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card.

Date:

1555/63

Artist:

Francesco de’Rossi, called Salviati
Italian, 1510-1563

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Francesco Salviati

Title

Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Abyss

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1555–1563

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, with traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped tan laid paper, edge mounted on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory wove card

Dimensions

6.4 × 10.7 cm (2 9/16 × 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.504

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