Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt, 1582?1647, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper; architectural moldings above and below indicated in ruled black chalk lines. , sheet: 6 1/4 x 16 in. (15. 9 x 40. 6 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, Parma 1582?1647 Rome), A pupil of Agostino and Annibale Carracci, Lanfranco worked in Rome early in his career, in Piacenza, in Rome again from 1612 to 1634, and finally in Naples. The artist made this fluid and graceful drawing in preparation for the fresco decoration of the Sala Regia in the papal Palazzo del Quirinale, a commission from Pope Paul V on which Lanfranco worked in 1616?17 along with Agostino Tassi, Carlo Saraceni, and others