Allegory of Time with Oval Portrait Medallion, Red Chalk Drawing

A red chalk drawing of an allegorical scene: a bearded, winged old man, partly nude, reclines on a stone pedestal beneath an oval portrait medallion of a man with curly hair. Two cherubs appear at lower right and lower left, and the pedestal bears the inscription 'A. Allegri'.

Artist

Francesco Bartolozzi

Date

1675-1750

Medium

Red chalk, with traces of black chalk and graphite, on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2488 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection