Second floor.
A choir of Angels playing on several musical instruments, their proportion about a foot and a half. God the Father supported by three Cherubs, by Guido Reni.
This is thought to be the original sketch of a picture done in fresco by Guido, in St. Gregory’s church at Rome.
The martyrdom of St. Erasmus, the figures about two feet high. This is the original sketch of the famous picture preserved in St. Peter’s at Rome, by Nicolo Poussin.
Two pictures adorned with many beautiful figures, whose proportion is about two feet. One represents the age of iron, the other the age of copper; and they are the original models of the two pictures in fresco, that are in the palace of Pitti at Florence, by Pietro da Cortona.
The original sketch of one of the ceilings painted in the Barberini’s palace at Rome, by Pietro da Cortona.
It represents many allegorical figures.
A half length portrait as big as nature. The figure has a letter in one hand, by Lodovico Caracci.
The portrait of Maria Robusti; a half length as big as nature, by Paris Bourdon.
The picture of a woman as big as life, half length, by Giorgione da Castelfranco.