Lot Essay
A study for the tondo in the centre of the grotesque panel in the far wall of the loggia in the Casino della Grotta in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua of around 1529
Details
Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546)
An Allegory of Abundance
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lightly squared in black chalk, the outlines pricked, the upper right corner made up
290 x 243mm.
An Allegory of Abundance
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lightly squared in black chalk, the outlines pricked, the upper right corner made up
290 x 243mm.
Provenance
William Young Ottley
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445)
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, and by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's, 5 December 1972, lot 37, illustrated
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445)
Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, and by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's, 5 December 1972, lot 37, illustrated
Literature
W.Y. Ottley, The Italian School of Design, London, 1823, illustrated facing p. 56
Bridgewater House catalogue, 1898, no. 118
Bridgewater House catalogue, 1898, no. 118
Exhibited
London, Lawrence Gallery, Fifth Exhibition, 1836, no. 4