Marcantonio Franceschini Three Studies of Kneeling Angels ca. 1690-1700 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Marcantonio Franceschini St Sebastian and St Francis with Mary Magdalene and Putti before 1729 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
Marcantonio Franceschini The Circumcision before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini Figure of Charity 1714 drawing British Museum |
Marcantonio Franceschini Figure of Chastity 1714 drawing British Museum |
Marcantonio Franceschini Abduction of Proserpina before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
from Paradise Lost
Not that faire field
Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flours
Her self a fairer Floure by gloomie Dis
Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain
To seek her through the world . . .
– John Milton (1667)
Marcantonio Franceschini Half-length Figure-study before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini Female Allegorical Figure before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini Male Allegorical Figure before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini St Luke holding a Portrait of the Virgin and Child before 1729 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Marcantonio Franceschini David and Solomon surrounded by Angels before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini Nymphs and Satyrs dancing before 1729 drawing British Museum |
Marcantonio Franceschini Adoration of the Magi before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
Marcantonio Franceschini Mercury with the Golden Apple summons the Goddesses to the Judgment of Paris before 1729 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |