Design for a Ceiling: Mars and Aries

Date

1700s

Medium

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and watercolor, with gouache, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink

Origin

Italy, 18th century

Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

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