print
- Museum number
- W,3.177
- Description
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The dance; landscape with four figures dancing on the left while other figures are playing music on the right; Cupid in top left corner, about to shoot an arrow. c.1540/43
Engraving with some etching
- Production date
- 1540-1543
- Dimensions
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Height: 332 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 460 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- The Dance is painted on the barrel vault of the loggia of the Appartamento del Giardino Segreto at the Palazzo Te (c. 1531-34). Giulio's pen and ink sketch for the composition is in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 323). Davent fills the background with a landscape created from various sources, including Dürer's St Eustace (1868,0822.183). This print may have served as a model for Lambert Lombard's pen and brown ink sketch of six dancing figures in the Album d'Arenberg in Liège (N. 111). See Jenkins 2017.
Also see 'Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit', Rome 1993, cat. No.83 and 'École de Fontainebleau', Paris 1972, cat. No.369.
Print burned in several places.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no indication of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,3.177