print
- Museum number
- 1898,0215.17
- Description
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Circe giving the potion to turn the men of Odysseus into swine; an oval composition, after Parmigianino. 1540s
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green
- Production date
- 1540-1550 (circa (original publication))
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (sheet dimensions)
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Width: 290 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Bartsch did not attribute this print to any known cutter, but Naoko Takahatake, 'The chiaroscuro woodcut in Renaisssance Italy', Los Angeles 2018, cat.48-50, has observed that the printing characteristics and publishing history of the print points to the workshop of Niccolò Vicentino and that the blocks were probably cut by Antonio da Trento. She considers that 1860,0414.109 and 1868,0612.15 were printed in the Vicentino workshop in the 1540s. This and W,4.83 are later impressions re-issued by Andrea Andreani c.1602-10.
This is after a drawing by Parmigianino of the same subject at the Uffizi, Florence (Inv. No. 750E). (A. E. Popham, Catalogue of Drawings by Parmigianino, 1971, vol. I, p. 66, no. 73)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1898,0215.17