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Design for a Fountain with Two Basins One on Top of the Other and Statues of Venus and Putti on the Top.
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Pen and black and brown ink brush and gray wash over traces of graphite with vertical line in graphite through the center to create the symmetry of the design
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Anne and Carl Stern Gift 1968
Title: Design for a Fountain with Two Basins One on Top of the Other and Statues of Venus and Putti on the Top.
Description:
Pen and black and brown ink brush and gray wash over traces of graphite with vertical line in graphite through the center to create the symmetry of the design.
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