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Design for a ceiling decoration, with suggestions for variant borders
Attributed to
Alberti, Cherubino
(Draughtsman)
Attributed to
Alberti, Giovanni
(Draughtsman)
History note: With Paul Prouté, Paris; Lodewijk Houthakker (collector's mark, not in Lugt, lower right); with Luca Baroni (Colnaghi Ltd)
Height: 547 mm
Width: 410 mm
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Method of acquisition: Bought
(1996)
by
Luca Baroni (Colnaghi Ltd)
Production date: circa AD 1580
?Either of the above
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite, bordered on all sides by a line of brown ink, on paper
Accession number: PD.74-1996
Primary reference Number: 7024
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: PD.52-1993
Accession Number: PD.20-1958
Accession Number: 2835
Accession Number: ANE.2c.1975
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