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Boar Hunt

Drawing
16th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Boar Hunt; Copied from a gem; Inscribed P. A. T.; Red chalk, washed with bistre and heightened with white.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBoar Hunt
Materials and techniques
Red chalk, washed with bistre and heightened with white
Brief description
Romano, Giulio (ascribed to); Boar Hunt; Copied from a gem; Inscribed 'P. A. T.'; Red chalk, washed with bistre and heightened with white; 16th century.
Physical description
Boar Hunt; Copied from a gem; Inscribed P. A. T.; Red chalk, washed with bistre and heightened with white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.2in
  • Width: 6.3in
With the corners cut off. 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.
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed P. A. T.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subject depicted
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. 175. The text is as follows: copies after VAGA, PERINO DEL 373 Meleager and Atlanta hunting the boar Inscribed indistinctly in ink ‘PAT’ Red chalk, strengthened with pen and ink and wash and heightened with white; cut in an irregular octagon 5 1/8 x 6 ¼ (133 x 158) Dyce 225 PROVENANCE Dyce Collection 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 225 (as ‘anonymous: ascribed to Giuilio Romano’) The composition is the same as the Hunting of the Calydonian boar shown in oen of the crystal plaques on the Farnese casket in the Naples Museum (illustrated in A. de Rinaldis’s article on the casket in Bolletino d’Arte, 2nd series, 3, 1923, p. 160). A design by Perino for the plaque is at Chatsworth (case 34, no. 157; Courtauld Institute photograph no. 640). But our drawing is copied from the plaque, which differs substantially from the drawing in certain parts. See also no. 374.
Collection
Accession number
DYCE.225

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Record createdSeptember 11, 2009
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