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Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, late 1690s

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini traveled widely, painting dazzling, effervescent decorations for fashionable palaces and villas across northern Europe. His drawings are free and spirited, as demonstrated in this loosely… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini ¹
Date: late 1690s ¹
Medium: Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk ¹
Original: 1,578 × 1,920 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, The David M. Daniels Fund

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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