View of Rome with Villa Chigi, called la Farnesina (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1537-1591
1537-1591
Title
View of Rome with Villa Chigi, called la Farnesina (recto)
Date of Production
(circa) 1555
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), red chalk (verso), on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 33.3 cm
Width: 33.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1955.WF.4642
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Fund, purchase, 1955 (February)
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Label Text
Naldini spent a formative period in Rome between September 1560 and May 1561. He filled a sketchbook with numerous views, including this depiction of the Villa Farnesina. Naldini sketched the location from the opposite bank of the river Tiber, as recorded in the inscription in the lower margin. The red chalk study of legs on the verso shows similarities with figures in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and The Conversion of Saul, revealing Naldini’s attentive study of this artist’s works in Rome.
Provenance
K.E. Maison (London); purchased there by The Courtauld Gallery via the Witt Fund, February 1955
Exhibition History
Il Rinascimento a Roma, Palazzo Sciara & Rome & Italy, 25/10/2011-12/02/2012
Roma e Siena, Museum of Santa Maria della Scala & Siena & Italy, 25/11/2005-17/04/2006
Zeichnungen Aus Der Toskana, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, 28/09/1997-24/11/1997 ...More
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less
Roma e Siena, Museum of Santa Maria della Scala & Siena & Italy, 25/11/2005-17/04/2006
Zeichnungen Aus Der Toskana, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, 28/09/1997-24/11/1997 ...More
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less
Literature
Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 25
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 15
Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: das Zeitalter Michelangelos, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, 1997
no. 55
ill. ...More
Siena e Roma: Raffaello, Caravaggio e i protagonisti di un legame antico, Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Squarcialupi, Siena., 2005-2006
no. 4.6
ill. on p. 320
Il Rinascimento a Roma: nel segno di Michelangelo e Raffaello, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, 2011-2012
no. 11
ill. on p. 156 and 270
Pfisterer, Ulrich, Raffael: Glaube, Liebe, Ruhm, Munich, C. H. Beck Verlag 2019
p. 140, no. 90
ill. on p. 140
Alessandro Cremona, “Tybridis uber aquis”: Raffaello e il giardino fluviale di Agostino Chigi in Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi, exhibition catalogue, Alessandro Zuccari, Costanza Barbieri (eds.), Rome, Villa Farnesina, 6 April – 2023, pp. 149-168.
p. 164
fig. 3 on p. 166 ...Less
cat. no. 25
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 15
Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: das Zeitalter Michelangelos, Saarland Museum, Saarbrucken, 1997
no. 55
ill. ...More
Siena e Roma: Raffaello, Caravaggio e i protagonisti di un legame antico, Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Squarcialupi, Siena., 2005-2006
no. 4.6
ill. on p. 320
Il Rinascimento a Roma: nel segno di Michelangelo e Raffaello, Fondazione Roma Museo, Palazzo Sciarra, Rome, 2011-2012
no. 11
ill. on p. 156 and 270
Pfisterer, Ulrich, Raffael: Glaube, Liebe, Ruhm, Munich, C. H. Beck Verlag 2019
p. 140, no. 90
ill. on p. 140
Alessandro Cremona, “Tybridis uber aquis”: Raffaello e il giardino fluviale di Agostino Chigi in Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi, exhibition catalogue, Alessandro Zuccari, Costanza Barbieri (eds.), Rome, Villa Farnesina, 6 April – 2023, pp. 149-168.
p. 164
fig. 3 on p. 166 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, last line abraded: Il presete paese e ritratto / da una casa i strada nuova / vicino a strada iu[lia] .
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: Titiano.
Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, erased: K[...].
Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: J.75..
Collector's mark: none.
Watermark: centre: 6-pointed star connected by vertical line to two crossed arrows (matches Briquet 6299 - dated 1554).
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: Titiano.
Inscription: Verso: lower left, graphite, erased: K[...].
Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: J.75..
Collector's mark: none.
Watermark: centre: 6-pointed star connected by vertical line to two crossed arrows (matches Briquet 6299 - dated 1554).
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