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Artist/Maker(s): Perino del Vaga (Piero Buonaccorsi) (Italian, about 1501 - 1547)
Culture: Italian
Date: about 1522
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash over underdrawing in black chalk
Dimensions: 40.9 x 26.8 cm (16 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions: On the old mount (which seems to have been mistaken by the earlier commentators for that of P.-J. Mariette but appears to be Genevosio's, in immitation of an old mount type), inscribed in the bottom left corner, within the ruled border, in black ink, “Dosso Dossi” and in another, later hand, upper right, in graphite, “22” in the lower right, also in graphite, “50”, and, just beneath the corner of the border, in black ink, “877” and in the lower left, in black ink, “50”. On a sheet of blue paper stuck down in the middle of the reverse of the mat, inscribed in J. C. Robinson's hand, in blue ink, “Dosso Dossi-Ferrara, born about 1479/ died after 1560/ 877. Ascribed to Dosso Dossi/ Design for the entire ordonance [sic] of the end wall/ of a chapel, showing the altar of a large window/ above it, and the rest of the surface of the wall,/ covered with a composition in many compartments/ evidently intended to be carried out in fresco./ The picture on the altar represents the Crucifixion, and the principal subject in the upper part/ on each side of the window is the Adoration/ of the Magi & other compositions on the/ usual subjects for the passion of our Savior./ In the [--] [embrasure(?)] of the window three shields of arms/ may be noticed, one of which bearing the “palle” of/ the Medici family & another the oak tree of Urbino/ probably indicating the reign of Pope Julius 2nd./ (della Rovere) pen drawing washed with bistre on brown paper./ Coll. Count Gelosi/ Height 16 Width 10 1/2/ Bought of Whitehead, Mercer's collection April 9/69 L7. Below this, inscribed in pencil, “Dosso Dossi design for East End/ Mariette/ Count Gelosi”.
Alternate Title(s): Study for a Wall Decoration (Published Title)
SKU: 201162
