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Girolamo da Carpi (1501-56)
Three figures c.1525-50
Pen and brown ink on a light brown ground | 17.6 x 18.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990312
Girolamo da Carpi (1501-56)
A nude man walking to the left c.1525-50
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A drawing of a nude man walking to the left, in front of a kneeling man and another seated holding a serpent. The composition is copied from the right half of a relief now in the Louvre, which represents the Death of Clytemnestra or Orestes and Pylades. It was formerly in Palazzo Giustiniani in Rome, where it was engraved by Pietro Santi Bartoli (Admiranda Romanorum Antiquitatum, 1693, plate 52).
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink on a light brown ground
Measurements
17.6 x 18.9 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL O : Royal Library "O" Number Register – RL O312Alternative title(s)
The Death of Clytemnestra; or, Orestes and Pylades
