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Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin

ca. 1780
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Study for a Ceiling of a Salon in the Hôtel de Mazarin
  • Artist: François Joseph Belanger (French, Paris 1744–1818 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1780
  • Medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray, brown and colored wash, over black chalk; blue paper mount pasted over edges of drawing, with framing lines in pen and black ink
  • Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (47 x 64.1 cm)
  • Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
  • Object Number: 32.85.5
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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