- Museum number
- 1895,0915.750
- Description
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Part of the Resurrection of Lazarus; two men with arms around one another, and a kneeling, semi-nude female figure
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on blue-green paper
- Production date
- 1515-1576
- Dimensions
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Height: 182 millimetres
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Width: 125 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This fragment of a once larger drawing was traditionally attributed to Titian. The correct attribution to Giuseppe Salviati is due to A.E. Popham. Luisa Mortari spotted that the drawing was connected in reverse to the group in the right-hand section of a painting of the 'Raising of Lazarus' in the Cini Foundation, Venice. She believed on stylistic grounds that the drawing was by Francesco Salviati and that the Cini painting was Giuseppe's copy after it. Cheney rejected this idea asserting that both were by Giuseppe Salviati. The reversal of the figures and the lighting in respect to the finished work is puzzling and perhaps the most likely explanation is that Salviati intended it to engraved. Cheney dates the painting to around 1540 while Ballarin preferred a slightly later date.
A facsimile of the BM drawing is in C.M. Metz, 'Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings from the Restoration of the Arts in Italy to the Present Time', London, 1798 (expanded edition of 1789) as Titian. A copy of the drawing in black chalk bearing an old attribution to Salviati is in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (Inv. 2871).
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq', London, 1876, no. 307 (as Parmigianino); L. Mortari, 'A drawing attributed to Francesco Salviati', 'The Burlington Magazine', XCII, 1950, pp. 228-31; I. Cheney, 'Francesco Salviati's North Italian journey', "Art Bulletin", XLV, 1963, p. 346, fig. 18; A. Ballarin, 'Jacopo Bassano e lo studio di Raffaello e dei Salviati', "Arte Veneta", XXI, 1967, p. 101, n. 40; D. McTavish, 'Giuseppe Porta called Salviati', New York and London, 1981, no. 10, pp. 328-30, fig. 129; M. Koshikawa and H. Kurita, in exhib. cat., Tokyo and Nagoya, 'Italian 16th and 17th Century Drawings', 1996, no. 50; V. Romani, in exhib. cat., Pordenone, San Francesco, 'Da Pordenone a Palma il Giovane', 2000, no. 31 (with further literature)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1996 Feb-Apr, Tokyo, Nat Mus Western Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no.50
1996 Apr-May, Nagoya, Aichi Pref Mus of Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no.50
2000 Oct-Dec, Pordenone, San Francesco Church, 'Pordenone to Palma'
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.750