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Giulio Romano

Saint Michael, c. 1527/1528

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 38.6 x 29 cm (15 3/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1973.5.1

Artists / Makers

Giulio Romano (artist) Roman, 1499 - 1546

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom verso on mount: from Dr. Mead Collection

Provenance

Dr. Richard Mead; John Barnard (Lugt 1420); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); (Samuel Woodburn, London); Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt 2710b); in his family, by descent (sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1972, no. 54); (Yvonne Tan Bunzl); NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, Francis
Sotheby's
tan Bunzl, Yvonne, Ms.

Exhibition History

1953: Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1953, no. 87.

1954: The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 94.

1974: NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 15.

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 82-83, 90, no. 107.

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 38-39.

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1989: Fürstenhöfe der Renaissance, Giulio Romano und die Klassische Tradition, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, pp. 184, 185, no. 109.

1989: Giulio Romano, Palazzo Te, Mantua, 1989, pp. 156, 161, 434.

1999: Giulio Romano: Master Designer, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery of Hunter College, New York, 1999, pp. 18, 20, 27, 82, 141, 142, no. 43.

2020: Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1898: Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no.13.

1934: Bodmer, Heinrich. "Drawings by the Carracci: An Aesthetic Analysis," Old Master Drawings, no. 32 (March, 1934): p. 65 (as Agostino Carracci).

1974: D.W. [Daniel Wildenstein]. "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1261 (February 1974): 113, no. 371.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 662, no. 1048, color repro.