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A Nymph with Putti and Satyrs. Verso: Sketch of a satyr's head

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini
1657-1736

A Nymph with Putti and Satyrs. Verso: Sketch of a satyr's head

15 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches (400 x 248 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on gray paper; verso: pen and brown ink, with black chalk.
1980.3

Purchased as the gift of John S. Thacher.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in a later hand, at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Conca"; on verso, in same hand, "Conca de Lineavit Roma".
Associated names
Rudolf, C. R. (C. Robert), former owner.
Thacher, John S., donor.
Bibliography
Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, exhibition catalogue by Philip Pouncey at al., Arts Council Gallery, London, 1962, no. 16 (as attributed to Sebastiano Conca).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 206.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department