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Study for a Ceiling Decoration: Coronation of the Virgin (recto); Female Head (verso)

1680·Red chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper (recto); red chalk study of a female head (verso)·18 1/16 x 14 5/8in. (45.9 x 37.2cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1680
Medium: Red chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper (recto); red chalk study of a female head (verso)
Dimensions: 18 1/16 x 14 5/8in. (45.9 x 37.2cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Giacinto Brandi

Artist

Giacinto Brandi

Drawing

Giacinto Brandi was an Italian painter active in Rome during the seventeenth century, working primarily in fresco and oil on canvas. His religious commissions and altarpieces demonstrate the influence of Baroque classicism and the artistic conventions of papal Rome.

Gaeta, Italy

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