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Antonio Tempesta
1555-1630
Two Women Holding a Cartouche with the Borghese Arms, One Riding in a Car Drawn by a Pair of Dragons, the Other in a Car Drawn by a Pair of Eagles
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
11 5/8 x 11 11/16 inches (296 x 297 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Powis Jones.
1972.3
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Mounted on a leaf from an album, with fragments of an armorial seal in red wax.
Inscription:
Numbered in pen and brown ink in lower right corner, "I".
Provenance:
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 June 1972, lot 194, repr.
Associated names:
Jones, Edward Powis, 1919-1998, former owner.
Jones, Edward Powis, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography:
Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974 / edited by Charles Ryskamp. New York : The Library, 1976, p. 182.
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