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Artist: Placido Costanzi (Italian, 1702-1759)

Medium: red chalk on paper

Dimensions: 13 1/8 in. x 9 9/16 in. (33.3 cm. x 24.3 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III

Accession Number: 1811.69

• "No. 12 Plaedio Constanei"
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso of old mount (lost)
  Materials:

• James ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
  • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
  • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)

Possibly a counterproof. Attributed to Tommaso Redi (see BCMA 1811.31) on the mount of the Witt Library photograph. See also three drawings listed in Byam Shaw 1983, vol. I, p. 189, under no. 189, repr. figs. 41-42 and pl. 203, and one at Christ Church, Oxford (Byam Shaw 1976, cat. no. 672, repr. pl. 365).

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).