Museum of Art
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 Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.69
- "No. 12 Plaedio Constanei"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials:
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin 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 Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).