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Three Cloud-Borne Cherubs

(Italian (Venetian), 1696–1770)
mid-18th century, about 1755
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk on white paper
DimensionsSight: 20.6 x 14.8 cm (8 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Framed: 36.5 x 28.9 cm (14 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Edward Habich
Accession number95.1398
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceGiovanni Domenico Bossi (1767-1853); to his daughter, married to K.C.F. Beyerlen; sale, Stuttgart, 27 March, 1882; [Dr. O. Eisenmann]; George Edward Habich (1818-1901, Boston and Kassel, Lugt 862); acquired December 1895
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