Studies for a Ceiling (recto and verso). Artist: Michel Corneille the Younger (French, Paris 1642-1708 Paris). Dimensions: 11 5/16 x 17 3/8 in. (28.8 x 44.1 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Date: n.d..This sheet of energetic sketches has been attributed to the French seventeenth-century painter Michel Corneille the Younger, a successful and prolific decorator of royal residences. The artist studied in Italy and trained under Pierre Mignard (French, 1613-1676) and Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690). Corneille the Younger was also a practiced printmaker, who was employed by the German banker Everhard Jabach (1618-1695) to engrave the best Italian drawings in his collection. The artist covered the sheet here with a large number of individual sketches, featuring ideas for figural groups, for ornament, and for the overall scheme of a compartmentalized ceiling. Although it is not certain for which build

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Studies for a Ceiling (recto and verso). Artist: Michel Corneille the Younger (French, Paris 1642-1708 Paris). Dimensions: 11 5/16 x 17 3/8 in. (28.8 x 44.1 cm). Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596-1669 Rome). Date: n.d..This sheet of energetic sketches has been attributed to the French seventeenth-century painter Michel Corneille the Younger, a successful and prolific decorator of royal residences. The artist studied in Italy and trained under Pierre Mignard (French, 1613-1676) and Charles Le Brun (French, 1619-1690). Corneille the Younger was also a practiced printmaker, who was employed by the German banker Everhard Jabach (1618-1695) to engrave the best Italian drawings in his collection. The artist covered the sheet here with a large number of individual sketches, featuring ideas for figural groups, for ornament, and for the overall scheme of a compartmentalized ceiling. Although it is not certain for which build

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