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Design for Ornamental Border with Foliage, Putti and a Lion's Head
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Design for Ornamental Border with Foliage, Putti and a Lion's Head

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk or graphite, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper, pasted down on a Talman mount

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Dimensions

sheet: 12 1/8 x 6 7/16 in. (30.8 x 16.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Alessandro Allori

1535–1607Grand Duchy of TuscanyDuchy of Florence

Florentine painter who was the adopted son of Agnolo Bronzino. His Mannerist style was influenced by his father as well as Michelangelo. His masterpiece is considered to be 'The Pearl Fishers' (ca. 1570). Comment on works: Religious; Portraits