About the Artwork
Annunciatory Angel in a Medallion
ca. 1510
Francesco Melzi
1493-1570
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper brown ink
Sheet: 1 3/4 × 4 inches (4.4 × 10.2 cm)
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Gift of Edward Fowles
38.61.B
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Provenance
Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House (Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England). July 5-6 and 9-10, 1917, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). Edward Fowles (Paris, France)
1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 233-234, cat. 190v (ill.).
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Francesco Melzi, Annunciatory Angel in a Medallion, ca. 1510, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper brown ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Fowles, 38.61.B.
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