drawing
- Museum number
- 1926,0713.11
- Description
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A ceiling decoration with the Apotheosis of Hercules to Olympia; surrounded by figures and musical angels on clouds, figures with tridents above
Pen and brown ink, with grey and brown wash
- Production date
- 1721-1723
- Dimensions
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Height: 318 millimetres
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Width: 431 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An early study with many differences for the ceiling fresco (Brini and Garas, fig. 18) of the sala dei marmi (room of marbles) in the summer palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Belvedere Superiore, in Vienna painted around 1721-3.
Lit.: H. Voss, 'Die Frühwerke von Carlo Carlone in Oesterreich', "Arte Lombarda", II, 2, 1961, p. 238; A. Barigozzi Brini and K. Garas, 'Carlo Innocenzo Carloni', Milan, 1967, pp. 40 and 124, fig. 17.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1926,0713.11
