Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Drawing of falsehood depicted as a woman falling over while a bishop pulls off her mask. He is seated with a chalice in his other hand. Looking over his shoulder is the Virgin Mary (?) and a bird flies over at center.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Paolo de Mattheis, Italian, 1662 - 1728
- Date
- ca. 1700
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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