Caricatures of Clerics and Priests

1640s or 1650s(?)

Pier Francesco Mola

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1666

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 14.1 x 18.6 cm (5 9/16 x 7 5/16 in.), irregularly torn and repaired

  • Accession

    2009.70.171


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York: Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 56-57, no. 17 (entry by Oliver Tostmann).

Inscriptions

by artist?, lower right in pen and brown ink: Mola / amico; by unknown hand, along right edge in graphite: [Not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64619551


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