drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.845
- Description
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A Doge seated on his throne attended by senators, to whom a gentleman is presenting a key; a colonnade behind
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black lead
- Production date
- 1556-1630
- Dimensions
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Height: 251 millimetres
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Width: 213 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A study for a ceiling painting, 'The Doge confirming the priviliges of the Notaries', formerly in the Collegio di Notai in the Palazzo del Podestà, Vicenza and now in the Brera, Milan along with its pendant 'The Emperor conceding priviliges to the Notaries'. A study for the latter work is in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem (C.29; van Tuyll no. 464). Meijer gives both drawings to Alessandro, while Materrese attributes the BM study to his son Marcantonio.
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq', London, 1876, no. 397 (as Veronese); B.W. Meijer, 'I Maganza e Francesco Maffei disegnatori', in "Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Roberto Salvini", Florence, 1984, pp. 473-81, fig. 3; O. Matarrese, 'I Maganza per il Palazzo del Podestà di Vicenza e un'ipotesi per il Palazzo Pretorio di Verona', "Verona Illustrata", 11, 1998, p. 25; C van Tuyll van Serooskerken, 'The Italian Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum', Haarlem/ Ghent/ Doornspijk, 2000, under no. 464
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.845