print
- Museum number
- 1850,0527.114
- Description
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Combat of animals: stag, lions, dogs, bears, boar, bull
Etching
- Production date
- 1540-1550
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 411 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sometimes attributed to Fantuzzi (Herbet), but given to Monogrammist IQV by Zerner in his introduction to Fantuzzi's works ('École de Fontainebleau, gravures', Paris 1969).
Dominique Cordellier linked this composition with the eastern vault of the Camera delle Aquile of Palazzo Te, Mantua, where Primaticcio probably worked to help Giulio Romano. D. Cordellier, in exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, 'Primatice, Maître de Fontainebleau', 2004, p. 73 note 33. The composition is also recorded in a large drawng after Giulio in the Louvre, which might have been the very sheet the printmaker had access to (inv. 3518). Another copy of the left side is in the Biblioteca Reale di Torino (inv. 16044). Only the elephant and the body of the dog at the extreme left of the Louvre image (right of the print) are omitted in the Fontainebleau etching. Jenkins 2017.
See also: Herbet II, n. 82.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- See comment to 1850,0527.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0527.114
