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The Fall of the Giants. Verso: Slight sketch for the same composition with Jupiter and his eagle

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini
1657-1736

The Fall of the Giants. Verso: Slight sketch for the same composition with Jupiter and his eagle

14 13/16 x 9 7/8 inches (377 x 251 mm)
Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, with white tempera, over red chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
1973.5

Gift of David E. Rust.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at left margin, in pen and brown ink, [illegible]; at lower right in a different ink by a later hand, "Joseph Nicolas Nasini de Sienne / 1650-1736 / ...Veronèse. Pietro de Cortone".
Associated names
Rust, David E., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 174-175.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department