A design for the decoration of a ceiling
This design for a ceiling has the arms of the Lenoncourt family at its centre. It is decorated with figures personifying virtues and vices, among them Jealousy, who bites himself, and Sloth, with a tortoise. The drawing had been split in two since at least the seventeenth century; the halves were reunited for this exhibition.
Follower of Francesco Primaticcio (1504-70)
A design for the decoration of a ceiling c.1550
Pen and brown ink over black chalk construction lines, with brown and pink wash, the verso covered, in places, with black chalk and the outlines traced through with a stylus. | 77.5 x 45.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906003
Follower of Francesco Primaticcio (1504-70)
A design for the decoration of a ceiling c.1550
Pen and brown ink over black chalk construction lines, with brown and pink wash, the verso covered, in places, with black chalk and the outlines traced through with a stylus | 77.5 x 45.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906004
