Donato Creti
1671-1749
Satyr Sneaking Up on a Sleeping Nymph and Other Indications. Verso: Study of a seated man and head of the same man
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (140 x 216 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over graphite, on laid paper; incised lines; framing line along top edge in pen and brown ink; verso: red chalk and black chalk.
1992.88
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
This sheet appears to be a preliminary sketch for a more finished drawing of the same subject with onlookers in an elaborate landscape, in a private collection, in Bologna (see Renato Roli, "Donato Creti. 46 disegni inediti," Bologna, 1973, no. 19, repr., where the present drawing also is mentioned).
The verso is a study for the figure of Mercury in Creti's painting of "Mercury Bearing Argo's Head to Juno", in the Collezioni Comunali d'Arte, in Bologna, executed for Collina Sbaraglia probably in the second decade of the eighteenth century (see Renato Roli, "Donato Creti", Milan, 1967, 87, no. 19, fig. 59).
This sheet appears to be a preliminary sketch for a more finished drawing of the same subject with onlookers in an elaborate landscape, in a private collection, in Bologna (see Renato Roli, "Donato Creti. 46 disegni inediti," Bologna, 1973, no. 19, repr., where the present drawing also is mentioned).
The verso is a study for the figure of Mercury in Creti's painting of "Mercury Bearing Argo's Head to Juno", in the Collezioni Comunali d'Arte, in Bologna, executed for Collina Sbaraglia probably in the second decade of the eighteenth century (see Renato Roli, "Donato Creti", Milan, 1967, 87, no. 19, fig. 59).
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Renato Roli, "Drawings by Donato Creti: Notes for a Chronology," Master Drawings, vol. XI, no. 1, 1973, 28, pl. 17 (verso only).
Classification
Century Drawings
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