DrawingsItalian17th century

Adoration of the Magi

17th century

Artists

Carlo MarattiArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, traces of graphite, on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

16.2 × 23.6 cm (6 3/8 × 9 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Lindner. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

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