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The Fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs

Drawing
1634 - 1705 (made)
Artist/Maker
Giordano, Luca (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (made)

The Fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs; Red chalk with red and brown wash; Signed Luca Giordano Napol'no.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleThe Fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Red chalk with red and brown wash
Red Chalk
Drawing
Wash Technique
Brief description
Giordano, Luca; The Fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs; Red chalk with red and brown wash; Signed 'Luca Giordano Napol'no'; Italian; 1634 - 1705.
Physical description
The Fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs; Red chalk with red and brown wash; Signed Luca Giordano Napol'no.
Dimensions
  • From catalogue height: 232mm
  • From catalogue width: 400mm
Marks and inscriptions
Luca Giordano Napol'no (Inscribed in ink in the so-called 'reliable Venetian hand' (as in Lugt 3005 c-d))
Credit line
Dyce Bequest
Object history
Provenance: Anonymous 18th century Venetian collection annotated in 'the reliable hand' (see the exhibition catalogue by A. Bettagno quoted below, pp. 13-24); Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869.
Subjects depicted
Lapiths
Centaurs
Bibliographic references
  • Science and Art department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum, Dyce Collection. A catalogue of the paintings, miniatures, drawings, engravings, rings and miscellaneous objects bequeathed by the Reverend Alexander Dyce London, 1874.
  • A. Bettagno, Disegni di una collezione Veneziana del settecento, exhibition catalogue, Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, 1966, p.51, no.45.
  • Peter ward Jackson, Italian Drawings. Volume II, 17th - 18th century London, Victoria and Albert Museum, HMSO: 1979.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, pp.54-55 , cat. n. 710, illus. The following is the full text of the entry: GIORDANO, LUCA (1632-1705) 710 The fight between the Lapiths and Centaurs Inscribed in ink in the so-called 'reliable Venetian hand' (as in Lugt 3005 c-d) 'Luca Giordano Napolno' Red chalk, with red and brown wash 9 1/8 x 15 3/4 (232 x 400) Dyce 355 PROVENANCE Anonymous 18th century Venetian collection annotated in 'the reliable hand' (see the exhibition catalogue by A. Bettagno quoted below, pp. 13-24); Sir J. Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 355 (as by Sebastiano Conca); A. Bettagno, Disegni di una collezione Veneziana del settecento (exhibition catalogue), Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, 1966, p. SI, no. 45 Formerly ascribed to Conca, following the Dyce Catalogue. But since the old attribution to Giordano recorded on the mount accords well with his style, there is no reason to take the drawing away from him. Two other drawings that demonstrate the same rapid and summary method of sketching in washes are in the British Museum, reproduced in O. Ferrari, 'Drawings by Luca Giordano in the British Museum' in The Burlington Magazine, 108, 1966, p. 302, figs. 34 and 35
Other number
710 - Ward Jackson Catalogue Number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.355

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Record createdJanuary 12, 2009
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