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One Half Design for a Ceiling with Floral and Strapwork Motifs (recto); Slight Scribbles (verso).
Design for One Half of a Ceiling with Elaborate Medaillons and Figures.
Design for a Ceiling Decoration with Putti and Garland Motifs.
Design for a Ceiling Decoration.
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Inscription: Recto is inscribed with initials in pen and medium brown ink at lower left by the hand of the patron, Duke Eberhard Ludwig, in approval of the artist's design. Next to it, the design is inscribed by the artist himself in pen and gray-brown ink along the lower border: "Profillo Della Salla dalla favorita nel Giardino de fas[s]ani per Sua Alt[ez]za Se[renissi]ma il Se[gno]re di Wirttinberg a Louisbourg per farsi di specchj et marmo et stucho la Soffita dipinta a fressco / D. G. Frisoni 1[7]18." (Carmen C. Bambach, revised June 16, 2004)
Leon Dalva, Sr., part of a Piedmontese-Lombard scrapbook
Mary L. Myers Architectural and Ornament Drawings: Juvarra, Vanvitelli, The Bibiena Family & Other Italian Draughtsmen. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, cat. no. 30, fig. no. 30, pp. 24-25, ill.
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