Artist Italian
Title
  • Two Cherubs Hovering in Mid Air
Date late 16th Century
Medium graphite pencil on beige antique laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 4 15/16 × 5 1/4 inches (12.5 × 13.3 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1SDR10
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, along lower edge: Baroch 12.X ns [or vs] C.M.
March 4-7, 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 820 (seven items, artists not all named).
James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 281, no. A20.