print
- Museum number
- 1850,0527.70
- Description
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Sts John and Anthony in a Landscape; St Antony with bell in his hand and pig at his feet, and, on the left, St John the Evangelist standing next to a tree, with quill in his hand and eagle at his feet. c.1540/45
Etching
- Production date
- 1540-1545
- Dimensions
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Height: 360 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 326 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The original composition is traditionally attributed to Giulio Romano, see 'Giulio Romano, pinxit et delineavit', Rome 1993, cat. No.89. Also see exhib. LACMA 1988, cat. No.87. For discussion of print see Catherine Jenkins 'Lansdscape in the Fontainebleau school print', 'Print Quarterly', vol.23, 2006, p.37.
The image derives from a combination of sources. The two figures were probably taken from Giulio, whereas Dürer's 'Virgin and Child with a Dragonfly' (1868,0822.180 and E,4.50) and 'St Eustace' (E,4.113 and 1868,0822.183) served as models for the landscape. Two related drawings of St Anthony (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes; inv. 2005.2.5) and St John (Biblioteca Reale di Torino; inv. 15809) show each figure on his own with no surrounding details.While these two drawings are not by Giulio himself, the poses of the two saints bear particular similarities to the figures he designed for the Duomo in Verona. Both the Rennes and Turin drawings, which show the figures in reverse with respect to their counterparts in the etching, are by the same accomplished hand — perhaps Primaticcio himself, as has been suggested by Cordellier, or an artist working in his circle (Cordellier, in 'De la Renaissance à l'Age baroque. Une collection de dessins italiens pour les musées de France', Paris 2005, p, 132). Jenkins 2017.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018, March-May, BM, G90a, 'Fontainebleau School'
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Acquisition notes
- See comment to 1850,0527.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,0527.70
