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The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra
Francesco Allegrini, Italian, 1615/1620 - after 1679
2008-361
Information
Title
The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
Dimensions
10.0 x 18.7 cm (3 15/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
frame: 24.8 x 33.0 cm (9 3/4 x 13 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Object Number
2008-361
Inscription
Inscribed in brown ink, along lower edge: m. antonio invita acena la cleopatra essendo r. cleopatra il dis (…) di m. antonio della (…) medesima (?) dell;
Inscribed in graphite, lower right center: Ottley’s mark
Inscribed in brown ink, on verso of mount, lower left center: D. 28
Inscribed in graphite, on verso of mount lower left center: Nicolas Poussin
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black ink, lower left (partially abraded): [Lugt 2662]
Recto, lower left, in black (partially abraded): WYO [mongram] (Lugt. 2662) (See reference Bib. 4661)
Culture
Type
Materials
William Young Ottley; Este Gallery, New York (as “French, seventeenth century”); purchased in 1958 by Joseph F. McCrindle;
- Frits Lugt, Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes: marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques: marques de marchands, de monteurs et d'imprimeurs: cachets de vente d'artistes décédés: marques de graveurs apposées après le tirage des planches : timbres d'édition, etc., (Amsterdam: Vereenigde drukkerijen; La Haye: Nijhoff, 1921)., Lugt no. 3561
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 92
- 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. 100, cat. no. 42; p. 102 (illus.)
