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Cherubino Alberti

Artist, Roman, 1553 - 1615

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1985.7.5


Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

Bibliography

1985

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

Inscriptions

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: *

Watermarks

Two crossed keys

Wikidata ID

Q64539808


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