DrawingsItalian17th century

Truth (after Bernini)

17th century

Artists

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)Artist

Gian Lorenzo BerniniArtist after

Jan de BisschopPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash, some traces of black chalk, on cream antique-laid paper, laid down

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

34.2 × 22.8 cm (13 7/16 × 9 in.)

Provenance

Horace Walpole, London (Lugt 1386). Sir John Charles Robinson, London (Lugt 1433). Emile Wauters, Paris (Lugt 911). Paul J. and Meta Sachs, Cambridge, by 1933, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

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