About the Artwork
Two Cherubs Hovering in Mid Air
late 16th century
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Italian
Italian
Graphite pencil on beige antique laid paper
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 5 1/4 inches (12.5 × 13.3 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR10
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Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, along lower edge: Baroch 12.X ns [or vs] C.M.
Provenance
March 4-7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 820 (seven items, artists not all named). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 281, no. A20.
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Italian, Two Cherubs Hovering in Mid Air, late 16th century, graphite pencil on beige antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR10.
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