print
- Museum number
- 1858,0417.1577
- Description
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Saturn prostrate leaning on his left hand in his right he holds a balance, before him is a youth; after Pordenone. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in grey, brown and black
- Production date
- 1540-1549 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 320 millimetres
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Width: 438 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the first state of the print before the addition of the address of Andreani. On the verso is a counterproof of an early impression of the tone block of Vicentino's Virgin and Child with Saints (B.23) . The sheet is inscribed in black ink 'f. parmesan' (i.e. Parmigianino).
See Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaissance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, cat.55 to 57, who reproduces three variant impressions. The composition is taken from Pordenone's facade of c.1535 on the Palazzo d'Anna in Venice.
This is one of two impressions of the print in the BM printed in Vicentino's workshop in the 1540s. It was later reprinted by Andrea Andreani (see W,4.88).
For further information and bibliography see the entry by Naoko Takahatake and Linda Stiber Morenus on the online catalogue 'Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento', ALU.0196.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999/2000 Dec-Sep, London, National Maritime Museum, Story of Time
2018 3 Jun-16 Sep, USA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
2018-2019 14 Oct-16 Jan, USA, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Acquisition notes
- The group of 58 prints was selected from the Italian prints of Heywood Hawkins's collection which Colnaghi had purchased en bloc, and given the first refusal to the BM. See Carpenter's report dated 20 January 1858.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0417.1577
