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Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 30 x 19.1 cm (11 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1985.7.5

Artists / Makers

Cherubino Alberti (artist) Roman, 1553 - 1615

Image Use

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Inscription

At upper left in brown ink: Vehor ad superos (crossed out) / Ad superos vehor; by an unknown hand (possibly Alberto Alberti) lower left in brown ink: (illeg.) Carbino (illeg) and lLr//in brown ink: *

Provenance

Benvenuto Cellini(?). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1985, no. 18 (as Federico Zuccaro); NGA purchase (via David Tunick, Inc., NY) in 1985.

Associated Names

Sotheby's
Tunick, Inc., David

Bibliography

1985: Sotheby's, New York: 1/16/85, lot 18.