GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ROMANELLI (Viterbo 1610-1662 Viterbo) An Allegory of the Virtues of the Roman Republic.
Pen and ink and wash and black chalk on cream laid paper. 258x156 mm; 10x6 inches. Coat-of-arms watermark.
Provenance: William Miller, New York; private collection, New York.
Romanelli was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and this is a copy after a corner of Cortona's ceiling decoration in the Grand Salone of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.
