Five Men Fighting Beasts, 1532

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut to platemark): 28 x 42 cm (11 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 79

Accession Number

2006.162.13

Artists / Makers

Master of the Die (artist) Roman, active c. 1532

Giulio Romano (artist after) Roman, 1499 - 1546

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left on stump: 1532; by later hand in graphite, on mount: CB XV. no 79. p. 229, Dado; by later hand in graphite, on verso of mount: Maestro del Dado / cinque uomini combattano / contro i bestie feroce / B, XV 79

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased March 23, 1989; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.