GIULIO PIPPI, GIULIO ROMANO* (1499-1546)

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GIULIO PIPPI, GIULIO ROMANO* (1499-1546)

Perseus slaying the Sea Monster with Andromeda looking on

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, the outlines incised, squared in black chalk
10¾ x 7 5/8in. (275 x 192mm.)

Provenance

R. Cosway (L. 628)
Sir Thomas Lawrence
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (L. 2710b), and by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1972, lot 67, illustrated

Literature

Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 130
P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, under no. 87

Engraved

By Conrad Martin Metz in Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings, 1789

Lot Essay

Engraved by Metz in 1789 when the drawing was in the collection of Richard Cosway. Pouncey and Gere pointed out that the present drawing was evidently used in the preparation of an engraving, which may well have been conceived as a pendent to an anonymous and undescribed 16th Century engraving (impression in the British Museum, Sloane Collection, V.8-41) showing Pegasus in the left foreground springing from the blood that pours from Medusa's severed head. The engraving agrees with this drawing both in size and the scale of the figures