Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mercury Turning Battus to Stone

Crescenzio Onofri
ca. 1650-ca. 1712

Mercury Turning Battus to Stone

12 9/16 x 18 inches (319 x 458 mm)
Black chalk, with light gray wash, on paper; ruled border in black chalk.
1967.20

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Inscriptions/Markings
Signed[?] in black chalk at lower left with the initials "CR". Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right, "Clescenzio Onofrio".
Associated names
De Beer, former owner.
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 157.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., ed. Fifteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967 & 1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 106.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
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