drawing
- Museum number
- T,11.29
- Description
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Two hounds in profile to right
Black chalk, with red chalk, partly squared in black chalk
- Production date
- 1557-1609
- Dimensions
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Height: 180 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Another version of this drawing was with the Walpole Gallery, London, in 1991 (a photograph of this is in the BM drawing dossier).
Lit.: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 290; N. Turner, in exhib. cat., BM, 'Florentine drawings of the sixteenth century', 1986, no. 164
Gere & Pouncey 1983
An identical pair of hounds occurs in the l. foreground of the Uffizi 'modello' for the curtain of a hunting scene (see Pp,3.196). The plant in the foreground appears elsewhere in the 'modello', from which it would seem to follow that this drawing was made as a preparatory study; but the suspiciously exact correspondence between the two pairs of hounds, which extends even to showing the tail and r. hind leg of the foremost hound in T,11.29 cut off just where they are obscured in the 'modello' by the leg of the huntsman in the l. foreground, suggests that it is a later derivation. In handling, T,11.29 is compatible with Federico, but if it is by him it is difficult to suggest what its purpose may have been, unless we are to assume that this is an early example of the kind of 'false study' which later artists - Donato Creti is a case in point - were in the habit of turning out. Identical autograph versions of Federico's drawings are not unknown, and were probably repetitions made for the benefit of collectors.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986, BM, Florentine Drawings 16thC, no. 164
- Acquisition date
- 1769
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- T,11.29
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: FAWK,5210.29