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Cherub (fragment)

Medium/TechniqueFresco transferred to canvas
Dimensions61.6 x 54 cm (24 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession number44.833
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1930, the Talleyrand family, Rome; 1930, sold by the Talleyrand family to Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 - d. 1950), Boston; 1944, gift of Holmes to the MFA [see note 1]. (Accession Date: December 14, 1944)

Notes:

[1] The piece was accessioned as a work by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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