- Museum number
- 1946,0713.21
- Description
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A river god and nymphs, with the Judgement of Paris; in a landscape with woods at right
Pen and brown ink, over red chalk
- Production date
- 1521-1574
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres
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Width: 414 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is not related to any known print by Bonasone. The composition is comparable to a number of engravings designed by Bonasone including the 'Judgement of Paris' (Bartsch XV, p. 143, no. 112) and 'Cupid in the Elysian Fields' (Bartsch XV, p. 139, 101). The traditional attribution has been questioned only by Faietti in her article on Bonasone's drawings (2000), although her misgivings about the drawing seem to have been resolved by the time of the Louvre catalogue where she cautiously accepts it as autograph ('il y a quelques raisons de croire ègalment à Bonasone pour le "Jugement de Pâris" ').
Lit.: A.E. Popham, Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, p. 33, no. 2; K.T Parker, 'Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum', II, Oxford 1956, under no. 119, p. 66; D. Degrazia, in exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art and Parma, Galleria Nazionale, 'Correggio and His Legacy', 1984, n. 6, p. 266; T. Ketelsen, 'A Drawing for Giulio Bonasone's Print after Titian's "Entombment"', "Burlington Magazine", CXXXVIII, July 1996, p. 450, fig. 12; M. Faietti, 'Giulio Bonasone disegnatore', "grafica d'arte", XI, 44,Oct.-Dec. 2000, pp. 7-8, fig. 5; M. Faietti, in exhib. cat., Paris, Louvre, 'Un siècle de dessin à Bologne 1480-1580', 2001, under no. 31, p. 107
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.21
