Mythology & Putti
Mythology & Putti
AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (FLORENCE 1501-ROME 1547)
The Triumph of Bacchus
c.1860-76Carbon print | 19.3 x 26.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851811
A photograph of a drawing attributed to Perino del Vaga now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.593).
The drawing, dating from c.1540-3, is a study for one of the six intaglios engraved in rock crystal by Giovanni Bernardi for the Cassetta Farnese, an embossed silver-gilt setting made by Manno Sbarri in c.1548-61 now in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. Copies of the drawing exists at the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.447) and Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (inv. no.0161; photograph at RCIN 851812). The composition was also engraved by Giorgio Ghisi (Bartsch XV, p.403, no.46).
Other studies by Perino del Vaga connected with the Cassetta Farnese are in the British Museum, London (inv. nos.Ff.1-62, 1946-7-13-565) and in the Louvre (inv. no.594; photograph at RCIN 852273).
The drawing, dating from c.1540-3, is a study for one of the six intaglios engraved in rock crystal by Giovanni Bernardi for the Cassetta Farnese, an embossed silver-gilt setting made by Manno Sbarri in c.1548-61 now in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. Copies of the drawing exists at the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.447) and Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford (inv. no.0161; photograph at RCIN 851812). The composition was also engraved by Giorgio Ghisi (Bartsch XV, p.403, no.46).
Other studies by Perino del Vaga connected with the Cassetta Farnese are in the British Museum, London (inv. nos.Ff.1-62, 1946-7-13-565) and in the Louvre (inv. no.594; photograph at RCIN 852273).
Creator(s)
After Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-Rome 1547) (artist)
19.3 x 26.3 cm (sheet of paper)
Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Fiction
- Tales & legends
- Myths
- Tales & legends
- Fiction
- Literature
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Dionysus
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Science, Medicine and Technology
- Agriculture and related techniques
- Horticulture
- Grapes
- Horticulture
- Agriculture and related techniques
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
Bibliographic reference(s)
Bacou 1984 : Bacou, R. Autour de Raphaël. Dessins et peintures du Musée du Louvre, 1984 pp.86-7, no.98
Other number(s)
Ruland p.135 D.XLIII.1
