About the Artwork
Two Draped Figures, Figure Wearing Armor, Two Studies of a Bearded, Supine Man
18th century
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
1727-1785
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink with gray, brown, and reddish washes and black ink on buff laid paper
Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 3/16 inches (23.7 × 18.3 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings
F1983.240
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper left: 2/ Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: M Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, lower center: F Cummings. Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper left: Salvator Rosa CH[?] | Francesco Ratti H. C Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, upper center right: Not Mortimer | Nothing to do with Salvator Rosa. | 18th cent. (Herbert P. Horne) | Mortimer | see signature "M" | RW. Inscribed, in blue chalk, on mount, verso, upper right: 290 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower center: MORTIMER | 101-13=59 P Inscribed, in pen and black ink, on mount, verso, lower right: 704. 525 [525 crossed out]
Stamp, in brown, lower right: HM [unidentified collector]
Provenance
unidentified collector HM. Alister Mathews (Poole, Dorset, England). 1963, Judith Church and Dr. Frederick J. Cummings (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1983-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. 300-301, no. A49.
Sunderland, John. "John Hamilton Mortimer, His Life and Works." The Walpol Society 52 (1986): no. R27, p. 224 (as Figure Studies wronly attributed to John Hamilton Mortimer and reminiscent of Giovanni Battista Cipriani).
Wark, Robert R. William Blake and His Circle. Exh. cat., Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. San Marino, California, 1965, no. 43, p. 21 (as Sheet of Unidentified Studies by John Hamilton Mortimer).
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attributed to Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Two Draped Figures, Figure Wearing Armor, Two Studies of a Bearded, Supine Man, 18th century, pen and brown ink with gray, brown, and reddish washes and black ink on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Frederick J. Cummings, F1983.240.
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