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Two Putti with the Arms of Camillo Pamphili
Artist: Alessandro Algardi (1595/98 - 1654)
Location: British Museum
Date: circa 1646
Materials: pen & brown wash over black chalk
Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,565 (Total: £15,645)
Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox
Review number: 3641 (1992)
Provenance:
Earls of Leicester, Holkham Hall; Christie's 1991; Popham and Lloyd, no. 36.
Description:
This is a study for the stucco releif in the centre of the ceiling of the Galleria di Ercole in the Villa Pamphili, outside Rome, which Algardi decorated in 1646. It is one of only three surviving drawings for the decoration. The other two are already in the British Museum.
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