Giulio Pippi, il Romano (1499-1546) and Studio

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Giulio Pippi, il Romano (1499-1546) and Studio

The Flight of the Meriones

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on blue paper, the upper corners cut
253 x 374mm.
Provenance
Sir Peter Lely (L. 2092)

Lot Essay

Related to the fresco in the Sala di Troia in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, painted in 1538 by Giulio's assistant Rinaldo Mantovano, F. Hartt, Giulio Romano, New Haven, 1958, II, fig. 385. The present drawing corresponds closely with a drawing in the British Museum, P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, I, no. 88, II, pl. 81

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