A Sacrifice to Ceres
Drawing
1534-1569 (made)
1534-1569 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Drawing study for a worship of Ceres.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | A Sacrifice to Ceres (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and wash heightened with white on faded blue paper |
| Brief description | Drawing, A Sacrifice to Ceres, by Pirro Ligorio, Italian School, pen and wash, 16th century |
| Physical description | Drawing study for a worship of Ceres. |
| Dimensions |
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| Style | |
| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed in ink in an old hand 'di mano di Polidoro da lo Anticho' |
| Object history | Provenance: Given by Miss Georgiana Lornlin 1880 |
| Subject depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings. Volume One: 14th - 16th century, London, 1979, cat. 186, p. 84-85, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
LIGORIO, PIRRO
(c. 1500 – 1583)
186
A sacrifice to Ceres
Inscribed in ink in an old hand ‘di mano di Polidoro da lo Anticho’
Pen and wash heightened with white on faded blue paper
15 7/8 x 10 7/8 (403 x 276) 8643G
PROVENANCE Given by Miss Georgiana Lornlin 1880
LITERATURE Gere, Zuccaro, p. 54, n. 1; the same, ‘Early drawings by Pirro Ligorio’ in Master Drawings, 9, 1971, pp. 244 and 249, pl. 17a.
Formerly ascribed to Polidoro Caldara. Pouncey suggested Ligorio many years ago. Gere endorses the attribution and includes the drawings in a group of drawings made during Ligorio's Roman phase (about 1534-69), when he was under the influence of Polidoro, to whom many of these early drawings were subsequently ascribed, like ours. The facial types, as Gere states, are characteristic of Ligorio, particularly in the case of the little acolyte on the left. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 8643G |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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