About the Artwork
Two Studies: Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius; Dido and Aeneas (?)
18th century
Giuseppe Valeriani
1690-1761
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink over graphite on cream laid paper
Sheet: 6 5/8 × 4 5/8 inches (16.8 × 11.7 cm)
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Gift of Bernard F. Walker
68.31
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Stamp, in black, lower right: EF (Edmund Fatio)
Provenance
Member of the Russian imperial family (Russia). Maximilien-Eugène-Auguste-Joseph Napoléon de Beauharnais, duc de Leuchtenberg. 1912, de Leuchtenberg family. Edmond Fatio (Geneva, Switzerland)
June 3-4, 1959, Fatio sale (Geneva, Switzerland) no. 241
1965, Schaeffer Galleries (New York, New York)
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1968-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.136, no. 67.
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Giuseppe Valeriani, Two Studies: Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius; Dido and Aeneas (?), 18th century, pen and brown ink over graphite on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Bernard F. Walker, 68.31.
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