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Design for Two Masks Shaped as Satyr and a Winged Medusa Head
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Design for Two Masks Shaped as Satyr and a Winged Medusa Head

1732–1802

Medium

Pen and dark brown ink

Dimensions

6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (17.4 x 12.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

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

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