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Adonis Departing for the Chase

Drawing
ca. 1625-1666 (made)
Artist/Maker
Mola, Pier Francesco (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

Adonis Departing for the Chase; A young female and child about to perform their ablutions, a boy brings water from a river. There is a man in the distance following the hounds; Pen and bistre, heightened with white.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Hunting
Object type
Drawing
TitleAdonis Departing for the Chase
Materials and techniques
Pen and bistre, heightened with white
Pen
Bistre
Drawing
Heightening
Brief description
Mola, Pier Francesco; Adonis Departing for the Chase; A young female and child about to perform their ablutions, a boy brings water from a river. There is a man in the distance following the hounds; Pen and bistre, heightened with white; Italian; ca. 1625 - 1666.
Physical description
Adonis Departing for the Chase; A young female and child about to perform their ablutions, a boy brings water from a river. There is a man in the distance following the hounds; Pen and bistre, heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.7in
  • Width: 7.5in
Original measurements converted from fractional inches into decimal inches (rounded to one decimal place). Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Style
Bolognese School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Collection-Jonathan Richardson, junior.
Subjects depicted
Woman
Child
Man
River
Hounds
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, pp. 70-71, cat. n. 772, illus. The following is the full text of the entry: MOLA, PIER FRANCESCO (1612-66) 772 Venus and Cupid camping beneath a tree, with Adonis hunting a stag in the distance Pen and ink, with grey and brown wash and chinese white, over red chalk; squared in red chalk 81 x 7! (222 x 190) Dyce 309 PROVENANCE J. Richardson, Jr (Lugt 2170); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 309 (as by Mola); R. Cocke, 'Some late drawings by Pier Francesco Mola' in Master Drawings, 10, no. 1, 1972, p. 27, pl. 24; Exhibition Catalogue, Master Drawings of the Roman Baroque from the Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, London and Edinburgh, 1973, under no. III Cocke publishes two other drawings by Mola of the same composition: the one in Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts, pl. 22; the other in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, pl. 23. No corresponding picture is known. Dieter Graf in the exhibition catalogue cited compares the drawing, so far as the painterly handling is concerned, with the sheet at Dusseldorf showing Erminia with the shepherd, which he considers to be a late work.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.309

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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