DrawingsItalian17th century

A Concert

17th century

Artists

Domenico Piola the ElderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk with additions of black wash (later?) on cream antique laid paper, laid down

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

43.5 x 29.4 cm (17 1/8 x 11 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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