Giulio Romano

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Giulio Romano

1499-1546

Design for a Handle with Two Satyrs

1524-1540

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; lower segment of stem (147 mm in length) silhouetted by the artist and pasted onto another sheet, on which he continued the lower most section of the design.

16 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (418 x 97 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1972.18

Notes:

Watermark: none visible through lining.
The lower segment of the stem was silhouetted for two inches by the artist and paste onto another sheet on which he continued the final section of the design.

Inscription:

Inscribed verso in pen and brown ink, "julio romano".

Provenance:

Unidentified collector, Pseudo-Crozat (Lugt S. 474, partly effaced); Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665-1745; Lugt 2184), London; Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830; Lugt 2445), London; Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857; Lugt S. 2710b), London; by descent to John Sutherland Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere and later 6th Duke of Sutherland; Ellesmere sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 1972, no. 54, repr.; Ellesmere sale, Sotheby's London, 5 December 1972, lot 10.

Associated names:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, Earl of, 1800-1857, former owner.
Sutherland, John Egerton, Duke of, 1915-2000, former owner.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 41.
Selected references: Ellesmere 1898, no. 162; Hartt 1958, no. 119; Fellows Report 17 1976, 166; Los Angeles 1976, no. 105; Mantua 1989, 457; New York 1997, no. 23; New York 1999, no. 12.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 166.

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