Giulio Romano

Two Putti on the Back of an Elephant, Study for a Stucco Medallion in the West Lunette on the Vault of the Camera delle Aquile, Palazzo Te

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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

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Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter

Giulio Romano

Rome 1499 - 1546 Mantua

Two Putti on the Back of an Elephant, Study for a Stucco Medallion in the West Lunette on the Vault of the Camera delle Aquile, Palazzo Te

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk;

bears inscription in pencil, verso: da cabinet Nic. Lanier--d. Crozat--P.J. Mariette (presumably transcribed from Mariette's mount when the drawing was remounted for Lawrence); made up around the edges by Mariette

159 by 169 mm; 6 ¼ by 6 ⅝ in

King Charles I (?);
Nicholas Lanier;
Pierre Crozat;
Pierre Jean Mariette (1694-1774), Paris (L.1852);
Count Moriz von Fries (1777-1826), Vienna (L.2903);
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (L.2445);
Samuel Woodburn;
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857), London (L.2710b),
by descent to the 5th Earl of Ellesmere, 6th Duke of Sutherland,
his sale, London, Sotheby's, The Ellesmere Collection, Part II, 5 December 1972, lot 22

Catalogue of the Bridgewater and Ellesmere Collections of Pictures at Bridgewater House, Cleveland Square, St. James's, London, London 1898, no. 166;
F. Hartt, Giulio Romano, New Haven 1958, vol. 1, no. 158, pp. 126 and 296; vol. 2, fig. 220, reproduced;
M. Winner, 'Raffael Malt einen Elefanten,' in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 11 (1964), pp. 101-02;
E. Verheyen, The Palazzo del Te in Mantua. Images of Love and Politics, Baltimore and London 1977, p. 122;
K. Oberhuber, 'La Camera dei Venti e la Camera della Aquile,' in Giulio Romano (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo Te Mantua, 1989, p. 354;
I. Bini, 'Giulio Romano, il Primaticcio e l'elefante 'Annone,'' in Quadrante Padano, 4 (1983), pp. 26-7;
S. Massari, Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit. Opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega, exh. cat., Rome, Instituto nazionale per la grafica, 1993, under no. 17;
A. Belluzzi, Palazzo Te a Mantova, Modena, 1998, vol. 1, p. 415