Mythology & Putti
Mythology & Putti
The Procession of Silenus
published 1734Etching | RCIN 851815
An etching which, according to the lettering below image, reproduces a drawing then attributed to Raphael and housed in the Crozat Collection, Paris. Published in B. Picart, 'Impostures Innocentes', Amsterdam 1734, plate 2. The drawing is currently untraced. A copy of Picart's volume can be found at RCIN 809004.
The composition is better known through an engraving by Agostino Veneziano (RCIN 851816: reputed to be after a design by Raphael or Giulio Romano). Another drawing of this subject, currently in the British Museum, London, and possibly once in the Crozat Collection (inv. no.1946,0713.502), is thought to be a copy after the original model for Agostino's engraving, rather than after the print itself (Shoemaker/Broun 1981, p.202). Pouncey/Gere (1962) advised that the British Museum drawing cannot be identified with the drawing reproduced by Picart in this facsimile. For further discussion, see Bibliographic References.
Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)