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The figure is seen hugging a large vessel in both arms. Head and body are draped in a mantle, while the hands are barely visible. An ancient relief served as the model for this depiction of a priest in the Egyptian cult of Isis. Executed in hesitant strokes lacking in fluency, the drawing is evidently the work of a pupil learning the craft.
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Artwork information
Artist
Unidentified pupil of the Piranesi studio, Group 9
Place and date
Rome, second half of the 1760s, certainly before 1778
Dimensions (sheet)
245 x 161 mm
Inventory number
IX 5159-36-9-1
Keywords
- Relief
- Holländisches Papier
- Pieter van der Ley
- Zaan
- Piranesi-Werkstatt
- Wasserzeichen
- Schwarze Kreide
- Fragment
- Isisprozession
- Sammlung Mattei
- IX 5159-36-9-1
- Männliche Figur
- Stilistische Gruppe 09
- Amphore
- Strasbourg bend and lily
- Strasbourg bend and lily (Beizeichen: VDL)
- Van der Ley, Zaan-Distrikt
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