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Design for a Cartouche or Frame with Four Groups of Military Ornament: Flames and Thunderbolts on bottom; Swags of Bombs at Sides; Sword, Baton, and Laurel Top.

Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")

18th century

Design for a Cartouche or Frame with Four Groups of Military Ornament: Flames and Thunderbolts on bottom; Swags of Bombs at Sides; Sword, Baton, and Laurel Top. by Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes")

Medium

Pen and black ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over graphite or lead, on beige paper

Dimensions

10-3/16 x 13-15/16 in. (25.8 x 35.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955

Accession Number

55.540.9

Tags

CartouchesOrnamentLeaves

About the Artist

Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes") · 1700–1800

Giovanni di Lorenzo Larciani (1484–1527), a Florentine painter known initially as the "Master of the Kress Landscapes," emerged from obscurity in the mid-1990s through the scholarship of Louis Waldman, who linked him to documents including a 1521 contract for an altarpiece. Born and active in Florence until his death, Larciani specialized in religious scenes enriched by vivid, atmospheric landscap...

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