Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)
date: label: Date
content: 1665
name: label: Artist
content: Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667
label: Sitter
content: Elisabetta Sirani, Italian, 1638–1665
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure of an artist painting on canvas in a pavilion with a high dado, which is decorated with escutcheons with winged skulls. A pair of mermen holding candles flank the flight of stairs.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-2503
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, red chalk on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.8 × 16.4 cm (11 3/4 × 6 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)