This sheet is comprised of an architectural surround with two female figures flanking an oval cartouche containing a pasted-in coat of arms at center. The surround replicates a design for a decorative panel above a mantelpiece in the Morgan's album of architectural designs by Jacques Androuet Ducerceau and his workshop (2006.19, folio 28). The coat of arms depicts a dragon with an eagle above, surmounted by a papal tiara; these are likely the arms of Camillo Borghese (1552-1621), who became Pope Paul V in 1605.
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Hardy, John, former owner.
Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003, donor.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 165.