Design for an Arch Surmounted by a Cartouche with a Ducal Crown
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, over leadpoint. Scale, upper the design, in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
6-9/16 x 9-7/8 in. (16.6 x 25.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965
Accession Number
65.654.122
Tags
Art Historical Context
This delicate 18th-century drawing, created by an anonymous Piedmontese between 1700 and 1780, presents a refined *Design for an Arch Surmounted by a Cartouche with a Ducal Crown*. Rendered in pen and brown ink with brush-applied gray and brown washes a precise leadpoint underdrawing, it measures 6-9/16 x 9-7/8 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints, work exemplifies the meticulous preparatory sketches favored by Italian architects and designers of the Baroque era. Originating from Piedmont in northern Italy—a region renowned for its opulent Savoy...