About the Artwork
Two Male Figures, One in Ancient Military Dress
ca. 1700
Donato Creti
1671-1749
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on dark buff laid paper
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 15/16 inches (20 × 15.1 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR299
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Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left corner: H[?] 628 | 1 [underscored]
Watermark: [anchor in circle, partially obscured, see Briquet 454-594]
Provenance
March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). 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, pp. 108-109, no. 50.
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Donato Creti, Two Male Figures, One in Ancient Military Dress, ca. 1700, pen and brown ink on dark buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR299.
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