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After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
St George and the Dragon 1525-50
Pen and ink with pale brown wash and white heightening, on paper washed buff | 46.0 x 35.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 991225
After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546)
St George and the Dragon 1525-50
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A drawing of St George, raising his sword to the writhing dragon, the princess kneeling on the right, in a landscape. The drawing is based on a composition by Giulio Romano, also recorded in an engraving in the same direction by Giulio Bonasone (Bartsch XV, p. 132, no. 77, inscribed IVLIO ROMANO. IN.VENTORE 1574).
The drawing corresponds exactly (including the distant city, which is different in the engraving) to a painting of 1543 by Bernardino Gatti in Santa Maria in Campagna, Piacenza. Inscribed at lower centre, in the 'Deceptive hand', is 'Bernardino Gatti'. Popham (in P&W) accepted this attribution, but it seems more likely that this is a copy of the school of Giulio, and that Gatti independently based his painting on Giulio's original composition.Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800-20: p. 126, ‘Two Volumes of large Drawings called Opere Varie’, Tom. 2, 'A St: George….Bernardo: Gatti.'
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink with pale brown wash and white heightening, on paper washed buff
Measurements
46.0 x 35.7 cm (sheet of paper)
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