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Drawing

16th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Perino Del Vaga (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

The Muses, seven of whom are playing the flageolet, seated under the branches of trees: five of the figures nude or nearly so; Drawn with the brush in bistre, and heightened with white.


Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
Drawn with the brush in bistre, and heightened with white
Bistre
Drawing
Heightening
Brief description
Perino del Vaga (ascribed to); The Muses, seven of whom are playing the flageolet, seated under the branches of trees: five of the figures nude or nearly so; Drawn with the brush in bistre, and heightened with white; 16th century.
Physical description
The Muses, seven of whom are playing the flageolet, seated under the branches of trees: five of the figures nude or nearly so; Drawn with the brush in bistre, and heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.3in
  • Width: 14.9in
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.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Women
Flageolets
Trees
Muses
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 I. 14th-16th century, London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1979, p. 202. The text is as follows: CREMONA: mid 16th century 439 The Muses making music Inscribed on the back in pencil in a modern hand ‘P. del Vaga’ Point of the brush and wash heightened with white 10 ½ x 15 ½ (267 x 394) Dyce 220 PROVENANCE Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 220 (as ‘anonymous, acribed to Perino del Vaga’) A note on the mount states that Bodmer believed the drawing to be a copy after an existing fresco by Niccolò dell’Abbate at Fontainebleau, but no freco, as far as we know, corresponds. The drawing has a certain affinity with dell’Abbate, but rather more perhaps with Giulio Campi.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.220

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Record createdSeptember 11, 2009
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