drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5223.46
- Description
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A putto holding up drapery
Red chalk
- Production date
- 1630-1640 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 198 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Francesco Lofano accepts the traditional attribution to the sculptor, comparing the putto in type to those in bronze designed by Fanzago in the 1630s for the altar and ciborium of the Cerosa di San Stefano del Bosco a Serra San Bruno (now Museo Diocesano in Vibo Valentia, see his fig. 6).
Watermark: encircled crown
Lit.: F. Lofano, 'Le "opere letigiose" del cavalier Cosimo Fanzago e nouve proposte per la sua opera grafica', "Storia dell'Arte", 37/38=137/138, 2014, p. 132, fig. 7
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5223.46
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,20.46
