Currently not on view
Six studies for over-window paintings in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Rossau-Vienna,
1692–1700
Marcantonio Franceschini, Bologna 1648–1729 Bologna
x1976-61 a-f
Information
Title
Six studies for over-window paintings in the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Rossau-Vienna
Dates
1692–1700
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash on beige paper, squared in graphite, mounted down
Dimensions
each (a-c): 9.8–10 × 27.5–27.7 cm. (3 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
mount (a-c): 29.5 × 27.7 cm. (11 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
each (d-f): 9.7–9.9 × 27.4–27.7 cm. (3 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
mount (d-f): 29.4 × 27.7 cm. (11 9/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1976-61 a-f
Signatures
Signed in graphite on verso on mount, lower right: M. A. Franceschini
Inscription
Signed verso on mount, lower right, in graphite:
M. A. Franceschini; inscribed, lower left, in graphite: 198-199
Culture
Type
- Virginia W. Callahan, "Comments on the Iconography of Six Engravings by Meloni after Franceschini," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 38, no. 1 (1979): 9–10., pp. 9–10
- Dwight C. Miller, "Franceschini's Drawings for the Liechtenstein Garden Palace," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 38, no. 1 (1979): 2–8., pp. 2–4, figs. 1–6 (illus.)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
