Battle Scene

Lelio Orsi (called Lelio da Novellara)  (Italian, Novellara 1508/11–1587 Novellara)

Date:
1511–87
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk; squared in black chalk
Dimensions:
5-5/16 x 12 in. (13.5 x 30.5 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Anna Mont in memory of Frederick Mont, 1998
Accession Number:
1998.129.1
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Annotated in pen and ink, along the bottom border: "Polidore," in mistaken reference to Polidoro da Caravaggio, another famed fresco painter of palace facades.

  • Provenance

    Frederick Mont (American, b. 1894); Donor: Anna Mont

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