Currently not on view
Story of Niobe (From the Façade of the Palazzo Milesi)
after Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1499–1543; born Caravaggio; died Messina
x1985-36
Information
Title
Story of Niobe (From the Façade of the Palazzo Milesi)
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash, heightened with white gouache on blue laid paper
Dimensions
20.7 × 33.2 cm. (8 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of H. Kelley Rollings, Class of 1948, and Mrs. Rollings
Object Number
x1985-36
Inscription
Inscribed verso, left center, in graphite: LT; lower right, in
graphite: 90-; upper right, in graphite: Cortona
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: M below six-pointed star, within shield (Briquet 8392: Ferrara 1580)
Culture
Type
Subject
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1985," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 45, no. 1 (1986): p.16–42, p. 31
- 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.)
