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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
1634-1718
Drawings for "Proverbj Figurati"
Red chalk on paper; some pricked for transfer.
Each: approx. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (242 x 190 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1966.4
Notes:
Drawings are for engraved plates 3, 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 21, 23, 27, 34, 40, 45, 47, and 48 of "Proverbj Figurati", Bologna, 1678.
Provenance:
Art market, Switzerland, possibly F. & G. Staack, formerly of Camden, ME; Lathrop C. Harper, New York.
Associated names:
Harper, Lathrop C., former owner.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. II: The seventeenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967, no. 127, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 156.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 107.
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