Object types
print (all objects)
Materials
paper (all objects)
Techniques
etching (scope note | all objects)
Production person
After Francesco Salviati (biographical details | all objects)
Date
1700-1750
Schools /Styles
French (all objects)
Description
The Triumph of the Phallus; an anonymous French engraving after a drawing by Francesco Salviati. Early eighteenth century
Etching on three joined plates
Inscriptions
Inscription Content: Engraved lettering at bottom left: 'Gravé d'après le dessein original de François Salviati Peintre Florentin'. At bottom right an inscription in pen and brown ink in a later XVIIIc or early XIXc hand: 'dans le cabinet de M.Hope de Vlierden, Colonel d'Hussar' (this can be read with the aid of fluorescence). There was a family of Hope in Vlierden, a small village in North Brabant.
Dimensions
Height: 448 millimetres
Width: 1642 millimetres (overall platemark)
Curator's comments
For the history of this composition, see Catherine Monbeig Goguel in 'Salviati et la bella maniera', Rome 2001, pp.24-39. This particular print was not known to her, and has been published for the first time by James Grantham Turner in 'Print Quarterly' XXIV 2007, pp.284-6. He knows one other impression of the print, now in a private collection in Stockholm together with the original Salviati drawing, which has a similar inscription in pen.
The three plates measure (left to right) 445 x 552; 448 x 542; and 444 x 548mm. The right hand one bears the initials CFL, which may be of the engraver, but do not serve to identify him. The print is published by Linda Wolk-Simon as 'Master CLF' but she provides no argument for who this engraver might be. See 'Art and love in Renaissance Italy', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2008, p.209.
Acquisition date
2002
Acquisition notes
The print was found in poor condition in 2002 rolled in the cupboard in P&E containing the Witt collection, and transferred to P&D. It had no register number and there is no evidence for its provenance and no reason to think that it came from George Witt (AVG)
Exhibition History
2008/9 Nov-Feb, New York, Met Mus of Art, forthcoming exhibition 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy'
2009 March-June, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, forthcoming exhibition 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy'+
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