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    24 January 2001

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    • Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Ro
    Lot 3

    Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546) or studio

    Neptune in his chariot drawn by hippocamps

    Price realised

    USD 23,500

    Estimate

    USD 25,000 - USD 50,000

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    Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano (1499-1546) or studio
    Neptune in his chariot drawn by hippocamps
    pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower right corner made up
    10 x 16 in. (255 x 406 mm.)

    Provenance

    Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar.
    Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
    Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (L. 2710b), by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's London, 5 December 1972, lot 18 (£11,000).
    with Thos. Agnew & Sons.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 53.
    V. Mancini, 'Un insospettato collaboratore di Giulio Romano a Palazzo del Te: Girolamo da Treviso', Paragone, (453), 1987, pp. 10 and 20, note 42.
    K. Oberhuber, 'L'apparato decorativo di palazzo Te', Giulio Romano, exhib. cat., Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 1989, p. 354.
    C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, The Italian Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, 2000, under no. 146.


    Exhibited

    London, Lawrence Gallery, Giulio Romano, Francesco Primaticcio, Leonardo da Vinci and Pierino del Vaga, Fifth Exhibition, 1836, no. 8


    Lot Essay

    Related to an hexagonal composition painted on the ceiling of the Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo Te, near Mantua, between September 1527 and March 1528. Another version now regarded by van Tuyll as the primary study for the ceiling is in the Teyler Museum, C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, op. cit., no. 146. For most of his post-Roman commissions Giulio relied on his assistants to execute the finished works. He provided them with a precise design for them to transfer into oil painting or fresco.

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