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Design for a Panel with Portrait of a Nobleman
Francesco de Murac. 1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Vertical rectabgle . Hald length portrait of a man in armor sketched within an oval frame. Decoration of the surorunding verical panel includes trophy of armds, two putti, masks at top and bottom and a build excutcheon sumounted by a crown.
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- Title: Design for a Panel with Portrait of a Nobleman
- Creator: Francesco de Mura
- Creator Lifespan: 1696/1782
- Date Created: c. 1750
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Brush and gray wash, pen and black ink, black chalk on paper
- Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli; Museum general Frund and Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
- Inscribed: On verso in pen: "Fran di Mura
- Exhibitions: New York, New York, Finch College Museum of Art, “The two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum" Feb.4- March 20, 1970, cat. #37, p.21 rep. on cover. New York, NY. The Metropolitan Museum of Art “Drawings from the New York Collections, the 18th Century in Italy" Jan.30-Mar.21, 1971. cat #58 text p.41Chicago, IL, Art Institute of Chicago, "The Golden Age of Naples" Jan.16-Mar.8, 1982, #8 (rep.p.262); Detroit Institute of Arts, Aug.11-Nov 1, 1981.Renato Roli and Giancarlo Sestieri, Idisegni Italiani del Settecento, Treviso, Liberia Editrice Canova, 1981, p.113, pl.192.
- Dimensions: 37.8 x 27.9 cm (14 7/8 in. x 11 in.)
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