Design with an Eagle Fighting with a Serpent and a Putto in the Sky Holding an Inscribed Banner.
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)
Artist bio: Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Italian
Date: 17th century
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black wash over traces of black chalk, highlighted with white and blue-gray gouache, on light brown paper
Dimensions: sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 5/16 in. (24.5 x 18.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1954
Accession year: 1954
Tags: Eagles|Putti|Serpents