drawing
- Museum number
- 1861,0810.11
- Description
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The rape of Proserpine; Pluto in his chariot carrying off Proserpine who is naked, a male figure riding the two horses which pull the chariot, with two amoretti beyond, land just visible below the clouds
Pen and black ink, heightened with white; on brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1530-1550 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Summary of J. Rowlands, 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no. 69:
'This drawing was considered to be by Aldegrever when it was acquired by the British Museum, and then Dodgson subsequently attributed it to Erhard Schön. It is more likely however, as Byam Shaw pointed out, that the draughtsman belonged to the circle of Hans Baldung. The drawing shows various features which are reminiscent of particular drawings by Baldung. For instance, the horses' heads recall those in the ‘Four fighting horses’, dated 1531, in Karlsruhe (Staatliche Kunsthalle; Koch, pl. 131), and Proserpine's head that of the ‘Bowed woman walking on balls tied to her feet’ (Koch, pl. 61) in Vienna (Albertina, inv. no. 3222.D.301). The drawing may have been done in the same hand as the ‘Lamentation over the dead Christ’ in Constance (Wessenberg Museum; Koch, pl. A. 11), a copy after Baldung.'
Lit from Rowlands 1993: C. Dodgson, OMD, ii, no. 7, 1927, p. 45, repr.; J. Byam Shaw, Burlington, liii, 1928, p. 152; BM Dürer and Holbein, p. 146, no. 116, repr.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1988, July-Oct, BM, Age of Dürer & Holbein, no. 116
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,0810.11
