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Cherub's Head
    • TitleCherub's Head
  • Technique/ MaterialPen and brown ink, wash, heightened with white on reddish prepared paper. Recto: See NMH 57/1863
  • DimensionsDimensions: (h x b) 21,5 x 14,3 cm
  • Artist/Maker Artist: Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian, born 1420, dead 1497. Workshop of
    Former attribution: Fra Angelico da Fiesole, Italian, born c. 1387, dead 1455
  • CategoryDrawings, Free-hand drawings
  • ClassificationDrawing
  • Geographical originItalien
  • Inventory No.NMH 58/1863
  • AcquisitionÖvertagande 1866 från Kongl. Museum (Lugt 1638)
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    Cherub's head seen against halo with eight wings decoratively arranged
    Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right: Del Beato Giou: da Fiesole Domenicano, del quale ne scrive la vita il Vasari, and along the upper margin: Del Beato Giovanni da Fiesole Domenicano morii d'anni 62 1455 (both inscriptions upside down) [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1041 (verso)]