drawing
- Museum number
- 1956,1013.13
- Description
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Aeneas and his attendant, from a composition with Mercury urging Aeneas to leave Dido; the small boy pulling at his coat
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1524-1566
- Dimensions
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Height: 142 millimetres
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Width: 100 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Study for a painting entitled 'Mercury urging Aeneas to leave Dido'. Other studies of the same subject are in the Rijksmuseum (s9.268) and in the Albertina (497:S.R.590, as Francesco Salviati).
Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 91
Gere & Pouncey 1983
A study for the composition discussed under 1976,0515.2. See also under 1956,1013.20.
Please see 1976,0515.2 for further literature.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 Feb-May, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, L'atelier de l'oeuvre
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- 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.
Gere & Pouncey 1983
Please see 1956,1013.20. for further provenance
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1956,1013.13