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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

Four putti playing with a pig, and other studies

published 1829

Etching | RCIN 851876

A facsimile of a drawing by an artist from the circle of Perugino, wrongly attributed on plate to Raphael. The drawing is part of the 'Libretto Veneziano', now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (f. 20r). Published in 'Disegni originali di Raffaello Sanzio [...] nella Imperial Regia Accademia di belle arti di Venezia', Venice 1829, plate XXIX. A photograph of the original drawing at RCIN 851875.

The drawing reproduced in this print is part of the so-called "Libretto di Raffaello" or "Libretto Veneziano", 53 sheets that used to be mounted in a volume. After complicated negotiations, the sketchbook was bought by the Accademia in the 1820s, after the death of Giuseppe Bossi, who was its previous owner. A number of scholars debated the author of the drawings (with many names proposed, such as Pinturicchio, Antonio da Viterbo, Eusebio del Giorgio, Girolamo Genga) and their date. In 1984, the drawings were catalogued as by an artist contemporary to Raphael, whose juvenile works he copied in this sketchbook (see Bibliographic References).
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)