Artist Donato Creti, Italian, 1671-1749
Title
  • Two Male Figures, One in Ancient Military Dress
Date ca. 1700
Medium pen and brown ink on dark buff laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 7 7/8 × 5 15/16 inches (20 × 15.1 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1SDR299
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Watermark: [anchor in circle, partially obscured, see Briquet 454-594]
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left corner: H[?] 628 | 1 [underscored]
March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England).
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, pp. 108-109, no. 50.