print
- Museum number
- 1850,0527.2
- Description
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Brennus throwing his sword on the scales before Camillus; Roman soldiers taking back what the Gauls had taken from them; Camillus on horseback. c.1545/47
Etching
- Production date
- 1545-1547
- Dimensions
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Height: 296 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 395 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The attribution of the original composition to Primaticcio (Bartsch) is rejected by both Dimier and Zerner, the latter suggesting the name of Luca Penni.
Jenkins, convinced by the Penni attribution, states that the composition is strongly influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio's depiction of the same subject, which was painted on the façade of a palace in Rome — possibly the palace near the church of Sant'Agata dei Goti mentioned by Vasari. Polidoro's design is recorded in a print by Jan Saenredam (New Hollstein Goltzius, IV, no. 630). Jenkins 2017.
Offprint on verso: scene representing the death of Adonis (W,3.182).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- See comment to 1850,0527.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0527.2
