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Design for a Cartouche flanked by winged Sirens with a Coat of Arms containing a Fleur-de-Lis
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Design for a Cartouche flanked by winged Sirens with a Coat of Arms containing a Fleur-de-Lis

1732–1802

Medium

Pen and brown ink over traces of leadpoint

Dimensions

7 5/8 x 6 9/16 in. (19.4 x 16.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Carlo Bianconi

1732–1802

Italian scholar and archivist; first secretary of the Reale accademia di Brera. Comment on works: painter; sculptor