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Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Lion's Head in Scrollwork Suspending Swags of Fruit and Leaves
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Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Lion's Head in Scrollwork Suspending Swags of Fruit and Leaves

1732–1802

Medium

Black chalk and leadpoint

Dimensions

8 7/8 x 6 7/16 in. (22.5 x 16.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1968

Classification

Drawings

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