- Museum number
- 1946,0713.78
- Description
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A woman leaning against a doorpost, holding on with her left hand
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1484-1523
- Dimensions
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Height: 316 millimetres
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Width: 156 millimetres (sheet made up)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The figure occurs in a drawing of 'Apollo and Herse' at Stockholm (NM 332/1863; Bjurström and Magnusson no. 551) by the so-called 'Calligraphic Forger', a seventeenth (?) century copyist of Raphael and Viti. A similar face appears in reverse in another drawing in Stockholm attributed to Viti himself (NM 336/1863).
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', I, London, 1935, p. 112, no. 1, pl. LI; P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, no. 261 (with previous literature), II, pl. 261; P. Bjurström and B. Magnusson, 'Drawings in Swedish Public Collections, 6, Italian Drawings: Umbria, Rome, Naples', Stockholm, 1998, no. 551; G. Moroni, 'Timoteo Viti nell'ambiente artistico urbinate tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento', Urbino, 2007, p. 235; A. Forlani Tempesti, “Viti disegnatore”, in B. Cleri ed., ‘Timoteo Viti. Atti del Convegno: Urbino, Palazzo Albani, Istituto di storia dell'arte, 25-26 ottobre 2007’, Urbino, 2008, p. 188.
Pouncey & Gere 1962
Borenius pointed out that this figure occurs in a drawing at Stockholm (Sirén, 'Handteckningar' 304; Schönbrunner-Meder, viii, 882), engraved in reverse by Caylus (Weigel 8278) when in the Crozat Collection under the title 'Hersé refusant à Mercure l'entrée chez Aglaure'. (It was in fact Aglauros who prevented Mercury from seeing Herse: cf. Ovid, 'Metamorphoses', ii. 708, etc.).
Viti's authorship of 1946,0713.78, evident from the style and affirmed by the Antaldi mark, shows that he was responsible for the composition of the Stockholm drawing. The latter was attributed to Viti by Crozat, but is one of a number of copies after Raphael and Viti by the 'Calligraphic Forger' (cf. 1946,0713.502).
Literature: T. B[orenius], Vasari Society, 2nd ser., xii (1931), no. 5; Popham, Fenwick, p. 112, no. 1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1962/3 Nov-Sep, BM, Raphael and his Circle (P+G)
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.78