drawing
- Museum number
- 1916,0708.9
- Description
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The calumny of Apelles; a courtyard(?) with figures standing beneath a colonnade, at left a seated man with huge ears, wearing a crown, beside him are two women, Ignorance and Suspicion, with Calumny approaching at r, holding a flaming torch and dragging a young man (Innocence) by the hair, a woman (possibly Envy) also with huge ears stands before her, and behind are four female figures, Guile, Deceit, Repentance and Truth
Pen and black ink
- Production date
- 1490-1537 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 141 millimetres
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Width: 272 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.88:
'This drawing is based on an engraving by Girolamo Mocetto (Hind, 'Early Italian Engraving' v, pp. 165-6, no. 12, vii, pl. 727) which is itself based on a drawing by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in the British Museum (inv. no. 1860,0616.85; P & P, pp. 97ff, no. 158, repr.). Breu has added to the foreground a loggia which is reminiscent of the type of Renaissance building then being constructed in Augsburg. The composition is also recorded in a drawing by Rembrandt in the British Museum (inv. no. 1860,0616.86; Hind, i, p. 34, no. 80, repr.).'
Lit from Rowlands 1993 C. Dodgson, Burlington, xxix, 1916, pp. 183-9
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2010 May-Oct: Augsburg, Maximilianmuseum, 'Bavaria and Italy'
- Acquisition date
- 1916
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1916,0708.9
