Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 10. Recto: Venus and Vulcan, Cupid and putti Verso: Madonna and Child and St. Elizabeth with St. John the Baptist.

Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano

Recto: Venus and Vulcan, Cupid and putti Verso: Madonna and Child and St. Elizabeth with St. John the Baptist

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80,000 - 120,000 GBP

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Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano

Rome 1499 - 1546 Mantua

Recto: Venus and Vulcan, Cupid and putti

Verso: Madonna and Child and St. Elizabeth with St. John the Baptist


Pen and brown ink and point of the brush and brown and grey wash, heightened with white and beige on grey-blue paper washed light brown, over black chalk, partially indented for transfer (recto); black chalk (verso);

Bears old attribution in pen and brown ink, recto: Giulio Romano f.

415 by 271 mm

Sale, London, Phillips, 6 December 1995, lot 166 (as Biagio Pupini, called Dalle Lame);
with Kate Ganz, London, A Catalogue of Drawings, Small Paintings & Oil sketches, 1996,  pp. 6-9, no. 1;
Private collection
K. Oberhuber and A. Gnann, Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello, exhib. cat., Mantua, Palazzo Te, 1999, p. 204, under no. 137 ('erroneamente sotto il nome di Giulio Romano')