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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Aurora

After Guido Reni
1575-1642

Aurora

15 1/2 x 38 5/8 inches (393 x 980 mm)
Black and red chalks on paper laid down on linen; squared variously in black and red chalk.
1980.5

Gift of Dr. Alice Binion.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Possibly preparatory for the engraving of 1722 by Jakob Frey (1681-1752) after Reni's fresco composition in the Casino Rospigliosi Pallavicini, Rome, C. 1612-1614.
Associated names
Binion, Alice, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 212.
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Classification
Century Drawings
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