print
- Museum number
- 1951,0820.2
- Description
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The death of Procris. c.1540
Engraving
- Production date
- 1538-1545
- Dimensions
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Height: 387 millimetres
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Width: 552 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Third state of ten. The first published state was issued by Lafrery.
After a design by Giulio Romano, by whom a drawing survives at the Städelsches Institut, Frankfurt (Inv. No. 4336), and a copy after at the Musée du Louvre (Inv. No. 3663). This, along with three other designs that were not engraved by Ghisi (the Hunt for the Calydonian Boar, Hylas and the Nymphs and The Death of Adonis), may have been designed by Giulio Romano to decorate the Gonzaga hunting lodge at Mamirolo (now destroyed).
See The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, Ex Cat. New York, 1985, pp. 44-46.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1951
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1951,0820.2
