ECL-Bm.12:71-2013
Parts
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
bust
Dimensions
height (actual size): 391mm
width (actual size): 508mm
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
