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A woman being seized by a sea-god c.1630-40
Red and black chalk with some wash and white heightening, discoloured through light exposure | 34.7 x 14.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 991257
Giuseppe Cesari, Cavaliere d'Arpino (1568-1640)
A woman being seized by a sea-god c.1630-40
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A carefully finished drawing of a nymph being seized by a sea-god, assisted by three tritons.
The drawing belongs to a series of erotic-mythological works executed by the artist towards the end of his career. The triton in the right may be related to the executioner on the right of Christ in a painting by Cesari dated 1636; a similar drawing of nymphs, in pastel and datable to the 1630s, is at Holkham Hall.
Provenance
Listed in the collection of James II, c.1685-88 (Bathoe edition, p. 48, no. 549), as 'A drawing in Red Chalk being three Tritons & a woman. Josepino'. Subsequently at Hampton Court, inv. 237; sent to the Royal Library c.1862.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Red and black chalk with some wash and white heightening, discoloured through light exposure
Measurements
34.7 x 14.5 cm (sheet of paper)
