History & Battles
History & Battles
AFTER A WORK COPYING GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)
The Clemency of Scipio
c.1853-76Albumen print | 28.6 x 41.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852211
A photograph of a drawing currently in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 991359).
Other drawings of this subject survive in the Louvre (inv. no.3722) and in the Albertina in Vienna (inv. no.142000). A further sheet was mentioned by Ruland as being then in the possession of the late Baron de Triqueti in Paris (see RCIN 852212), and another was destroyed in 1871 when in the Édouard Gatteaux Collection in Paris (see RCIN 852210).
The subject is related to the set of tapestries illustrating the history of Scipio Africanus commissioned by Francis I from Giulio Romano between 1531 and 1535, who is held responsible for the invention of the composition. The Louvre drawing has been described as the design ('petit patron') for the tapestry. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Other drawings of this subject survive in the Louvre (inv. no.3722) and in the Albertina in Vienna (inv. no.142000). A further sheet was mentioned by Ruland as being then in the possession of the late Baron de Triqueti in Paris (see RCIN 852212), and another was destroyed in 1871 when in the Édouard Gatteaux Collection in Paris (see RCIN 852210).
The subject is related to the set of tapestries illustrating the history of Scipio Africanus commissioned by Francis I from Giulio Romano between 1531 and 1535, who is held responsible for the invention of the composition. The Louvre drawing has been described as the design ('petit patron') for the tapestry. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Creator(s)
After a work copying Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)
28.6 x 41.4 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.237, no.359 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)
pp.48-9 (entries by Roseline Bacou) (Jules Romain : L'Histoire de Scipion. Tapisseries et dessins, 1978)
