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Pietro de' Pietri (1663-1716)
The Countess Matilda before Urban II
Pen and brown ink with watercolour | 17.2 x 14.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904411
Pietro de' Pietri (1663-1716)
The Countess Matilda before Urban II
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A drawing of Countess Matilda bending her knee before Pope Urban II, who gestures and turns his head towards St Anselm, standing on the left; based on Romanelli's fresco of the same subject in the Vatican
Provenance
Probably acquired by George III in 1762 as part of the collection of Cardinal Alessandro Albani; first recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1800-1820 (Inv. A, p.110: among 33 'Drawings of Pietro de Petris. Massuci and other Scholars of Carlo Maratti, excepting one Caricatura by Ghezzi')
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink with watercolour
Measurements
17.2 x 14.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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