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After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
A family meal ('Il Convito') 1525 - 1600
Pen and ink with brown wash, discoloured, the outlines reinforced with pencil | 24.6 x 41.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990283
After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
A family meal ('Il Convito') 1525 - 1600
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A drawing of an antique family meal: copied from Giulio's design for a fresco in the Casino della Grotta, Palazzo del Te, Mantua. According to F. Hartt (recorded in P&W), the original is in Würzburg, though this may have been a confusion with a drawing in Budapest.
Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 52, ‘Guilio [sic] Romano, Polidoro, e Perino del Vaga’, Tom. 2, no. 6 (the fair copy Inventory B records nos. 5 and 6 as 'Tortures in a Prison [990483], and a Feast').
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with brown wash, discoloured, the outlines reinforced with pencil
Measurements
24.6 x 41.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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