Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn and Two Putti (recto); Study of the Same Figures (verso)

Provenance

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Artist: Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) (Italian, Volterra 1611–1690 Florence)
Date: 1642
Medium: Red chalk, brush and red wash, on beige paper (recto); faint red chalk sketches for the same group (verso)
Dimensions: 10 1/8 x 10 3/8in. (25.7 x 26.3cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1970
Accession no.: 1970.282

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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018927
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Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1612–56 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019904
Half-Figure of an Angel Looking Upward (recto); Bust of a Man in Left Profile (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1611–89 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019905
Studies of Architectural Moldings, of the Virgin and Child with a Kneeling Saint, and of Two Angels Supporting Frames (recto); Studies for Architectural Mouldings (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019906

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