Catalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat.no. 118)

Anon. early to mid-16th century draughtsman
Pen and brown ink over grey chalk, brown wash, freehand,
27 × 16.9 cm

NM H CC 745v

PAPER: light weight paper, distance between the chain lines 19–20 mm; right edge trimmed with remnants of glue, suggesting that the sheet was bound in a scrapbook

WATERMARK: Crescent 23
 
MEASUREMENTS: no measurements; no scale

PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941

BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished

The Corinthian capital and the acanthus frieze probably refer to the funerary monument illustrated on the recto of the sheet (Cat. no. 117). Below them is a partially visible narrow plait band, sketched in grey chalk. [end]

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Studies of a Corinthian capital and of an acanthus frieze | Nationalmuseum

Titel (sv): Korintiskt kapitäl och akantusranka
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Title (sv): Korintiskt kapitäl och akantusranka
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