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A design for a tomb c. 1543
Pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening, on blue paper | 13.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 905974

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (Viadana c. 1500-Parma 1569)
A design for a tomb c. 1543
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A drawing of two figures (Justice and Peace?) lamenting, either side of a tomb.
The drawing appears to be a study for the tomb of Bartolomeo Prati, in the Duomo of Parma, commissioned in 1543 from the sculptor Prospero Clemente following a design by Girolamo Bedoli ('secondo il disegno fatto da maestro Geronimo Bedoli'; see A. Bacchi, Prospero Clemente, Reggio 2001, pp. 24-26). Here the lamenting figures hold a balance and an olive branch, and are thus Justice and Peace; in the tomb as executed they are without attributes.
The traditional attribution was apparently to Primaticcio. The drawing was attributed by Bodmer to the school of Tibaldi (note formerly on mount); Popham preferred Florentine, probably Salviati (in P&W); the connection with the Prati tomb was first noted by Stefano Tumidei (as communicated to Bacchi, cit.).Provenance
Probably listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800, p. 54, ‘Pellegrino Tibaldi, Primaticcio, Procaccini &c.’, one of nos. 13-17, ‘Studies by Primaticio’.
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with brown wash and white heightening, on blue paper
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13.8 x 16.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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