Medium:Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto). Framing lines in pen and ink. Parts of drawing outlines traced, in black chalk (verso)
Dimensions:15-3/4 x 10-7/8 in. (40 x 27.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number:37.165.5
Inscription: Illegible annotation in graphite on verso.
Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron; Guillaume de Gontaut-Biron, marquis de Biron
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from New York Collections: Eighteenth Century in Italy," January 30–March 21, 1971.
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Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums. "The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates," March 19, 1978–May 7, 1978.
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