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ECL-Bm.12:71-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bm.12:71-2013

Object type

Identification

Title

Two masks

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Comments

Sampson catalogue states that Fa 3 (was Fa 2) describes: 'tre maschere antiche. una di tre e lasciata per essere fratta'


Other number

Fa 3 No. 55?

Description

Content (description)

Both masks have long beards and moustaches, bulbous noses and parted lips. Their brows are bulbous and their pupils are marked. The hair is taken back from their foreheads and stands in a high fan of locks. Fillets appear from behind their necks. The mask on left has long thin pointed ears, which rise on to the forehead in front of the hair. The mask on right has strange volutes set on the forehead.

Content (object)

mask
bust

Dimensions

height (actual size): 391mm
width (actual size): 508mm

Inscription

Calderi Villa Medici No. 55 written in ink on the back of the drawing

Inscription description

V. MEDICI No. 55 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Person

Calderi, Carlo (Artist)

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

image 147590
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