Recto: A seated faun with his right arm raised
Drawing
16th century (drawn)
16th century (drawn)
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Drawing, Recto: A seated faun with his right arm raised, Verso: A design for a frieze round the top of a room, with Apollo and Hyacinthus in the middle, flanked by two fauns serving as caryatids, two female busts and other ornamental motifs, school of Paolo Veronese, Italy, pen and ink, 16th century
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| Materials and techniques | Recto: pen and ink; verso: pen and ink and wash |
| Brief description | Drawing, Recto: A seated faun with his right arm raised, Verso: A design for a frieze round the top of a room, with Apollo and Hyacinthus in the middle, flanked by two fauns serving as caryatids, two female busts and other ornamental motifs, school of Paolo Veronese, Italy, pen and ink, 16th century |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Marks and inscriptions | Recto: inscribed along the right edge in a later hand 'Paolo Veronese' |
| Object history | PROVENANCE Sir P. Lely (Lugt 2092; on the verso); J. Talman (see the gold border on verso, as in Lugt 2462); bought 1865 |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings Volume I. 14th-16th century, London, 1979, cat. 413, p. 188, illus.
The text is as follows:
school of
VERONESE, PAOLO
413
Recto A seated faun with his right arm raised
Inscribed along the right edge in a later hand 'Paolo Veronese'
Pen and ink
Size of sheet 16 x 6 5/8 (406 x 168) 4462
Verso Design for a frieze round the top of a room, with Apollo and Hyacinthus in the middle, flanked by two fauns serving as caryatids, two female busts and other ornamental motifs
Pen and ink and wash
PROVENANCE Sir P. Lely (Lugt 2092; on the verso); J. Talman (see the gold border on verso, as in Lugt 2462); bought 1865
The old attribution to Veronese is to some extent justified by the design on the verso, which is close to him, though probably not by him. The study of a faun on the recto is less like him, but it is somewhat similar, in the penwork, to a well known drawing of two seated fauns in Mr Curtis O. Baer's collection. Mr Baer's drawing has been much discussed and variously attributed to Titian, to Domenico Campagnola, to Dosso Dossi and to the young Sebastiano del Piombo. The question has never been satisfactorily decided. The most recent discussion of it (with a bibliography) is in Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: I. The Italian Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1966, p. 45, no. 59. A curious feature of the Victoria and Albert drawing is the gnarled hands and feet of the faun. |
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| Accession number | 4462 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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