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Jupiter and Alcmene (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1501-1547

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1527-1596

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
active 16th century (Life dates)

Title

Jupiter and Alcmene (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1528 - 1531

Medium

traces of black chalk and a black chalk grid underdrawing, pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour on brown-prepared paper (recto), black chalk (verso), with a semi-arched top

Dimensions

Height: 37.2 cm
Width: 20 cm

Accession Number

D.1964.WF.4734

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1964

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, 1964

Exhibition History

Perino del Vaga, Mantua, 17/03/2001-10/06/2001

Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo: progetto ed esecuzione, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 16/11/1981-31/01/1982

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

Literature

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 5a
pl. II

Bean, Jacob, Italian drawings in the Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton University 1966
under no. 8
as School of Perino

Andrews, Keith, National Gallery of Scotland. Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Cambridge 1968
p. 125 ...More

Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts aus eigenem Besitz, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1977
no. 107
as Perino

Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo: progetto ed esecuzione, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1981-1982
cat. no. 134
p. 188
ill.

Davidson, Bernice F., 'The Furti di Giove tapestries designed by Perino del Vaga for Andrea Doria' in 'The Art Bulletin', September 1988 - pp. 424-50; LXX, 3
pp. 441-42
fig. 17 on p. 441

Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo, Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001
no. 128
ill. on p. 251

Sotheby's, New York, Old Master & British Drawings, 30 January 2018
under lot 4 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: "D 26009".

Collector's mark: none.

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