drawing
- Museum number
- 1953,1212.6
- Description
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The Gods on Olympus with their various attributes; two gods reclining in the foreground including Apollo
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on grey prepared paper
- Production date
- 1513-1561
- Dimensions
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Height: 117 millimetres
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Width: 133 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Another similar drawing is in the Louvre (Inv. 4999).
Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 147; N. Turner, in exhib. cat., BM, ‘The Study of Italian Drawings: The Contribution of Philip Pouncey’, 1994, no. 70
Gere & Pouncey 1983
Another drawing of the composition by Franco, likewise from the Jabach Collection and almost exactly the same size as 1953,1212.6, is in the Louvre (4999).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994, BM, 'The Study of Italian Drawings', No. 70
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,1212.6
