Currently not on view
After the Antique: Sarcophagus Fragments,
ca. 1554
Unknown Italian artist
1996-45
Information
Title
After the Antique: Sarcophagus Fragments
Dates
ca. 1554
Maker
Unknown Italian artist
Medium
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on light tan Fabriano paper with chain lines
Dimensions
28.8 × 37.6 cm. (11 5/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George B. Tatum, Class of 1940 and Graduate School Class of 1950, in memory of Charles Rufus Morey
Object Number
1996-45
Place Made
Italy
Inscription
Inscribed recto, lower part of image, in brown ink (from left
to right): netunys Anfit. . . / corona pampineo / Cythera / Doris /
Nereus / tygre / Buccina con concha / Chromis / Silenus / Corona
pampineo; lower left edge, in cartouche, in darker brown ink:
Vide. . . conformo aco. . .imo. . . in perche; lower center edge, in
brown ink: nel giardino dela Valle tutti; lower center, in boat,
in brown ink: Acorter qui brucia. . . ; lower right, in cartouche,
in brown ink: Exsumptum / ex virgo./ eclog 6; lower right
edge, in brown ink: Tygrin; inscribed verso, lower left, in
brown ink: GIORGIO VASARI fecit
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: Encircled square with five stars at center (Zonghi 1725, dated 1554; similar to Briquet 6098, dated 1554, Lucca)
Culture
Type
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1996," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 56, no. 1/2 (1997): p. 75-115., p. 106 (illus.)
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86 (illus.)
