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Antony Giving the Library of Pergamum to Cleopatra
Francesco Allegrini, Italian, 1615/1620 - after 1679
2008-362
Information
Title
Antony Giving the Library of Pergamum to Cleopatra
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with traces of black chalk
Dimensions
9.3 x 13.6 cm (3 11/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of the Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
Object Number
2008-362
Inscription
Inscribed in brown ink, across lower edge: m. Antonio donna la libraria di Pergamo (…)
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, lower left (partially abraded): WYO [monogram] [Lugt 2662]
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
William Young Ottley; Este Gallery, New York (as “French, seventeenth century”); purchased in 1958
by Joseph F. McCrindle;
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 nos. 2183, 1419, 970
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 114
- 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. 138, cat. no. 56 (illus.); p. 228, app. no. 9 (illus.)
