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[Various sketches: four figures and a horse on recto and two partial figures on verso]
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Description | These drawings were found mostly in the collection of Carlo Prayer (1826-1900), a Milanese collector whose works were dispersed after 1880. Comparison of the Library of Congress sheet with these drawings indicates the same hand at work. Further proof that this drawing belongs to the group is the inscription "P/223" on the verso. Many of these drawings carry numbers in the same handwriting on the verso preceded by the same "P/" and were probably part of a sketchbook, as suggested by Oberhuber (p. 195, under cat. no. 51). One of the drawings, in Berlin, must have preceded this work by one drawing as it is numbered P/221. Oberhuber dates the Berlin drawing ca. 1503-1505, a date that also works stylistically for this drawing. There is no influence of Marcantonio's later relationship with Raphael, which indicates these drawings are all earlier than his Roman years. The figures in the drawing are not found in other sheets by the artist and, in general, do not conform to any of his prints, although the prancing horse on the recto does relate to the stance of the horse in Marcantonio's print of the statue of Marcus Aurelius (dated ca. 1506 by Oberhuber: Faietti and Oberhuber 1988, pp. 134-136, cat. no 34 [Bartsch 514]). The seated figure at right is very close, in reverse, to one in the Musèe Bonnat (Faietti and Oberhuber, p. 55, fig. 1). Certainly, the mis-en-page is identical to his other sheets, with groups of figures together and sketches of single figures nearby. Without further comparisons, the subject of the group at left on the recto remains a mystery. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Drawings (Master) |
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| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
