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Design for a Festival Float or Barge

Possibly by Prospero Fontana Italian
ca. 1530–40
Not on view
Another study with some variations for this elaborate decorative construction, which may well have been intended for a festival float, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes (inv. C 65.1). Both drawings in New York and Rennes bear a traditional attribution to Polidoro da Caravaggio, but Bernice Davidson pointed out that they are the work of some close follower of Perino del Vaga. According to Florian Härb and Marzia Faietti (see here Bibliography), the Metropolitan Museum of Art drawing could be an early work by the Bolognese painter and prolific drafstman Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) who, after a short period spent with Innocenzo da Imola, joined the Roman workshop of Perino del Vega at just sixteen years of age.
(F.R., 2014)

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Design for a Festival Float or Barge
  • Artist: Circle of Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome)
  • Artist: Possibly by Prospero Fontana (Italian, Bologna 1512–1597 Bologna)
  • Date: ca. 1530–40
  • Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on faded blue paper
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 16 7/8 in. (26.1 × 42.8 cm)
    Mount: 12 3/8 in. × 18 11/16 in. (31.4 × 47.4 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1971
  • Object Number: 1971.85
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Christ and the Daughter of the Centurion, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
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Sketch for a wall panel in the Sala Paolina at Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
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Minerva from the "Doria Grotesques", Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Wool, silk (17-19 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.), Netherlandish, Brussels
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Allegory or Goddess (Juno?), Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
Allegory or Goddess (Juno?)
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Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) Italian, Pen and brown ink
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