Design for a Cartouche with a Lion's Head and Nimbus

Carlo Bianconi

1732–1802

Design for a Cartouche with a Lion's Head and Nimbus by Carlo Bianconi

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and green wash with framing lines in gray-green ink

Dimensions

7 x 8- 7/16 in. (17.8 x 21.4 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Accession Number

52.570.312

Tags

CartouchesFruitLeavesLions

About the Artist

Carlo Bianconi · 17321802

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

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