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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

AFTER PERINO DEL VAGA (FLORENCE 1501-ROME 1547)

The Triumph of Bacchus

c.1860-76

Carbon 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.1540-43, 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
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Dionysus
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Agriculture and related techniques
        • Horticulture
          • Grapes
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp.86-7, no.98 (Bacou 1984 : Bacou, R. Autour de Raphaël. Dessins et peintures du Musée du Louvre, 1984)