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Agostino Mitelli

Design for a ceiling decoration

No reserve

Lot Closed

January 25, 10:22 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

Lot Details

Description

Agostino Mitelli

Bologna 1609 - 1660 Madrid

Design for a ceiling decoration


Pen and brown ink over traces of black and red chalk

345 by 242 mm; 13⅝ by 9½ in. (sight size)

Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 16 January 1986, lot 2
This is a preparatory study for the ceiling decoration in the Audience Chamber of the Palazzo Pitti, Florence that was painted by Agostino Mitelli and Angelo Michele Colonna between 1636-1641. A related group of drawings was sold in these rooms on 16th January 1985, lot 55.