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Pope Silvester with Fortitude 1520 - 1600
Pen and ink with wash and white heightening | 39.1 x 26.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 990486
After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
Pope Silvester with Fortitude 1520 - 1600
After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
Pope Silvester with Fortitude 1520 - 1600
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A drawing copying a project drawing by Giulio for the decoration of the Sala di Constantino in the Vatican: Pope Sylvester enthroned, surrounded by putti, flanked by a seated personification of Fortitude, in armour with a lion at her feet. This does not appear to be a copy after the more elaborately finished drawing in Chatsworth, which includes only the lower part of this composition and in which several of the details are different (inv. 139; sometimes claimed as by Giulio himself, eg Giulio Romano, Mantua 1989, p. 258).
Provenance
In the collection of ?Sir Peter Lely (the initials PL stamped lower right, Lugt 2093, though this 'large' PL is sometimes doubted as Lely's); Everard Jabach (an elaborate paraph on the verso); in the auction of the collection of Jabach's grandson, Gerhard Orichail, Amsterdam, 16 October 1753, as by Giulio: 'Eenige Figuuren in een Nis', 3 florins to Pieter Ijver (Yver; this information from Bernadette Py, 2000), who evidently sold a quantity of drawings to George III around the time of his accession in 1760 (see M.C. Plomp, 'Acquisitions for the English Royal Collection from the 1759 Abraham van Broyel sale', Oud Holland, 2004, pp. 244-61).
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with wash and white heightening
Measurements
39.1 x 26.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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