Pietro Buonacorsi, called Perino del Vaga (1501-1547)

Studies of a Torso, a Nereid and a Dolphin (recto); Studies of a Leg (verso)

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Pietro Buonacorsi, called Perino del Vaga (1501-1547)
Studies of a Torso, a Nereid and a Dolphin (recto); Studies of a Leg (verso)
with inscriptions 'Giulio Campi f.' and '14^o'
black chalk
167 x 203 mm.

Provenance

Pseudo-Crozat (L. 474), his shelfmark 'D5B 2d'.

Literature

T. Clifford, Review of Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church Oxford, The Burlington Magazine, 1983, CXXV, pp. 33-4, fig. 28.

Exhibited

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 16th and 17th Century Italian Drawings, 1981, no. 10.

Lot Essay

The nereid is probably a primo pensiero for one of the gilded stucco figures on the ceiling of the the Sala Paolina in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, F.M. Aliberti and E. Gaudioso, Gli affreschi di Paolo III a Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1981, p. 170, fig. 108. Perino was inspired by a marine thiasos on the so-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus, now in the Glyptothek, Munich, D. Strong, Roman Art, London, 1976, pl. 20.

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