Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs

Design for a Silver Dish, the Rim Decorated with Cupids, a Nude Woman and Two Satyrs

RP-T-1982-7

Ontwerp voor een zilveren schaal, waarvan de rand gedecoreerd is met een doorlopende voorstelling van putti die zich bezighouden met de wijnbouw.

draftsman (artist): Salomon de Bray

1647

pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk and incised compass circle

diameter 312 mm

purchase 1982

Public domain

…; Miss Howard Mercer (?-?), Sandhurst, Berkshire/Shalford, Surrey;{Was involved in ‘art of drawing’, according to the catalogue for the sale, London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3.} sale [section Miss Howard Mercer], London (Sotheby’s), 23 March 1972, no. 3; …; C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1972; Jan Gerrit van Gelder (1903-80), The Hague and Utrecht; from the dealer Saam Nijstad (1922-2011), The Hague, fl. 10.000, 1982

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