Design for an Overdoor Decoration (recto); Rinceaux (verso), ca. 1670–90, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk (recto); rinceaux in red chalk (verso), 11-5/16 x 8-1/16 in. (28.8 x 20.4 cm), Gregorio de' Ferrari (Italian, Porto Maurizio 1647–1726 Genoa), This sheet contains two ideas for the decoration of a frame in which a satyr takes center stage. In the design on top a satyr mask is being crowned with a laurel wreath by two cherubs while in the lower design, a vase decorated with satyr masks is placed centrally on top of the frame and is flanked by the figures of two young satyrs
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