drawing
- Museum number
- 1977,0507.12
- Description
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Faith with a chalice in her raised right hand, with two figures manoeuvring a cross, and on three separate pieces of paper, studies for the right arm, the right hand and the face
Red chalk
- Production date
- 1535-1570
- Dimensions
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Height: 424 millimetres
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Height: 59 millimetres
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Width: 36 millimetres (average of three remaining sketches)
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Width: 270 millimetres (lower and upper edges rounded)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing was recognised as by Giuseppe Salviati by Philip Pouncey when in the C.R. Rudolf collection. It is possibly related to two lost paintings mentioned by Boschini: a frescoed figure above the Valier altarpiece in the Frari, Venice or by the arms of Doge Francesco Donà (1545-53) in the Sala dello Scudo of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. The BM drawing does not correspond to the space above the altarpiece so it is perhaps more plausibly associated with the figure once in the Palazzo Ducale. An unrelated red chalk figure of Faith is in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (Inv. 290; McTavish 2004, no. 4, pp. 337-8, fig. 4)
Lit.: D. McTavish, 'Giuseppe Porta called Salviati', New York and London, 1981, no. 14, pp. 332-3, fig. 170; D. McTavish, 'Additions to the Catalogue of Drawings by Giuseppe Salviati', "Master Drawings", 42, Winter 2004, under no. 4, p. 338
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1977
- 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
- 1977,0507.12
