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The Finding of the Child Moses

Drawing
1517-1519 (made)
Artist/Maker
Giovanni Francesco Penni
Place of origin
Rome (made)

This drawing is a design fro the corresponding painting in the vault of the Vatican Logge and belongs to a group of drawing by the same hand connected with the same series of paintings in the Logge. By eliminating Giulio Romano, Perino and Polidoro, Gere and Pouncey arrived at the conclusion that Penni was probably the author of this group of drawings.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleThe Finding of the Child Moses
Materials and techniques
Pen and wash and ink, squared in black chalk
Pen
Bistre
Drawing
Wash Technique
Brief description
Gianfrancesco Penni, Finding of Moses, Study for the fresco in the Loggia of the Vatican, pen and ink and washed, squared in black chalk, Italian school, 1517-1519.
Physical description
Finding of Moses: seven women by the river bank, one of them is rescuing a baby in a basket from the water
Dimensions
  • Height: 1.2in
  • Width: 11.4in
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
High Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
(There is a long inscription by A. M. Zanetti on the back of this drawing.)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Object history
Flink of Rotterdam, M. Wander Schelling, The Marquis Legoy, Dr. Mead, and Sir Thomas Lawrence; Bequeathed by Rev. A. Dyce to the museum in 1869
Subject depicted
Moses
Summary
This drawing is a design fro the corresponding painting in the vault of the Vatican Logge and belongs to a group of drawing by the same hand connected with the same series of paintings in the Logge. By eliminating Giulio Romano, Perino and Polidoro, Gere and Pouncey arrived at the conclusion that Penni was probably the author of this group of drawings.
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.
  • K. Oberhuber ed., Raphael's Zeichnungen, Berlin, 1972, cat. no. 461.
  • Nicole Dacos, Le logge di Raffaello : maestro e bottega di fronte all'antico, Rome, 1977, plate XXXIb
  • Peter Ward Jackson, Italian Drawings, volume one: 14th-16th century, London, 1980, cat. 245, p. 122.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.185

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2009
Record URL
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