Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (1607-1667) Italian cardinal and historian
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Holy See
City: Vatican City
Place: British Embassy
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Explore
- People
- Pallavicino, Pietro Sforza
- Places
- Subjects
- male portrait, beard, moustache, Italian, man, 17th century costume, robe, biretta, cardinal
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Roman 17th century unknown
- Title
- Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (1607-1667) Italian cardinal and historian
- Date
- 1663
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 72.50 cm, width: 62.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the British Museum, June 1946.
- Inscription
- tc: CARD SFORZA PALLAVICINUS 1663
- Provenance
- Collection of antiquary Smart Lethieullier (1701-1760); by whom presented to British Museum on 3 May 1760; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1946
- GAC number
- 23