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Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (recto), and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper (verso), on blue laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (recto), and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper (verso), on blue laid paper.

Date:

c. 1588

Artist:

Paolo Farinati
Italian, 1524-1606

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Paolo Farinato

Title

Study for Spandrel Decoration with Satyress, Satyrs, and Putti (recto); Head of Putto (verso)

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1583–1593

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (recto), and black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper (verso), on blue laid paper

Dimensions

25.4 × 42 cm (10 × 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.766

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