DrawingsBritish?18th-19th century

Putto Flying Through Clouds

18th-19th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Louis-Félix de La RueAlternative attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and brown and buff wash on cream antique laid paper

Culture

British?

Century

18th-19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

10.8 x 14 cm (4 1/4 x 5 1/2 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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