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A frieze of putti, arms and armour c.1550-1600
Pen and ink with wash, heightened with white, on buff prepared paper | 9.3 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905016
Paolo Farinati (1524-1606)
A frieze of putti, arms and armour c.1550-1600
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A design for a decorative frieze of three putti amid arms and armour. Presumably a design for a monochrome frieze to be painted at the top of a wall; compare the similar friezes in Palazzo Giuliari, Verona, now the seat of the university (see D. DeGrazia Bohlin, Master Drawings, 1982, pp. 347-69). A companion study, of two putti amongst musical instruments, is at RCIN 905015.
The Royal Collection holds forty-seven sheets by Farinati and his followers. It is probable that most, if not all, were acquired during the reign of Charles II. A list of albums at Kensington Palace in 1727 includes one volume of drawings by Farinati and his followers, in which this sheet was housed. The album contained RCINs 904973 – 905026, with other sheets by Farinati housed in a miscellaneous album. These volumes were subsequently broken up and the drawings were mounted separately.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Charles II; listed in George III's 'Inventory A,' c.1800–20, p. 117, Paolo Farinati ‘A Spirited manner & not wanting in Invention but not correct in his Drawing.’
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Pen and ink with wash, heightened with white, on buff prepared paper
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9.3 x 42.3 cm (sheet of paper)
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