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Antonio Maria Zanetti
1680-1757
Statue of Cleopatra Seen from Front
Graphite, with small details in pen and brown ink, on paper; border in pen and brown ink and gray wash.
14 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches (377 x 257 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1959.3:6
Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "5 / Cleopatra Creduta / Artemesia(?)"; at lower left, on album page support, in graphite, "Not Engraved".
Provenance:
John Quantock, England; Randolph Gunter, New York.
Bibliography:
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 100-102.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 178.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 33.
Associated names:
Zanetti, Antonio Maria, 1706-1778.
Quantock, John, former owner.
Gunter, Randolph, former owner.
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