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Flying Angel and Other Figures
Mattia Preti1661-1666
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Central figure with large wings reaching up with an object in its hand. At bottom right a smaller sketch of a winged putto.
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Details
- Title: Flying Angel and Other Figures
- Creator: Mattia Preti
- Creator Lifespan: 1613/1699
- Date Created: 1661-1666
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Red chalk on paper.
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee
- Inscribed: In pen and black at lower left: "Calabrese"
- Exhibitions: New York, NY Finch College Musuem of Art "The two sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum" Feb.4- Mar.20, 1970, cat. no.12, repro. Valetta, The Palace, The Museum of St. John's Co-Cathedral,Mattia Prenti, XIII Council of Europe Exhibition, " The Order of St. John in Malta, Apr.2-Jul 1,1970 .
- Dimensions: 21.1 x 18 cm (8 5/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
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