mounted to ivory sheet with brown borders; ivory and green overmat with tan and gold borders; sketch; cart at bottom drawn by a horse with its rider wearing a mask and carrying a switch; five seated figures on cart and one women wearing a mask (or female scarecrow figure?) seated on a stool at back of cart; sketch of a man on horseback in ULC; small portrait of the head and torso of a masked woman behind horseman

A Horse-Drawn Festival Cart with Studies of a Horseman and a Masquerader, 17th century

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Title
A Horse-Drawn Festival Cart with Studies of a Horseman and a Masquerader
Artist Life
Italian (Florence), 1610–1664
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2012.58.9
Provenance
Charles Nöel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough (1781-1866), Kinnaird Castle (part of della Bella album); his daughter, who married 9th Earl of Southesk, Master of Kinnaird Castle; [Arcade Gallery, London, 1946, no. 41]. Victor Bloch, London (until 1963; his sale, Sotheby's, London, November 19, 1963, no. 86). [Richard Day, London, until 1989; sold in July for £3,000, to Moir]; Alfred Moir, Santa Barbara (1989-d. 2010; bequeathed to MIA)
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mounted to ivory sheet with brown borders; ivory and green overmat with tan and gold borders; sketch; cart at bottom drawn by a horse with its rider wearing a mask and carrying a switch; five seated figures on cart and one women wearing a mask (or female scarecrow figure?) seated on a stool at back of cart; sketch of a man on horseback in ULC; small portrait of the head and torso of a masked woman behind horseman