Two Putti with the Arms of Camillo Pamphili

Alessandro Algardi (1595/98 - 1654)

British Museum

circa 1646

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.

• Medium: pen & brown wash over black chalk
• Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.2cm
• Art Fund Grant: £1565 ( Total: £15,645)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox

Provenance

Earls of Leicester, Holkham Hall; Christie's 1991; Popham and Lloyd, no. 36.

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