Studies after the Antique: The Fall of Phaëthon, Horses, Reclining Women with Children (recto); Studies after the Antique: An Altar or Urn, Lion Attacking a Horse (verso)
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Title:Studies after the Antique: The Fall of Phaëthon, Horses, Reclining Women with Children (recto); Studies after the Antique: An Altar or Urn, Lion Attacking a Horse (verso)
Artist:Amico Aspertini (Italian, Bologna ca. 1474–1552 Bologna)
Date:1474–1552
Medium:Black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (verso)
Dimensions:14-5/8 x 10-1/4 in. (37.2 x 26.0 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1919
Object Number:19.151.6
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower left, Trecitellio; and numbered, no. 10.
Sir Edward John Poynter (British, born France)Poynter sale, London, Sotheby's April 24-25, 1918, no. 2; his sale, Sotheby's, London, April 24–25, 1918, lot 2Poyner sale, London, Sotheby's, April 24-25, 1918, no. 2.; Vendor: Robert Langton Douglas , as agent for the Museum
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 16–April 17, 1983.
The Frick Collection. "Animals in Combat: Giovanni Francesco Susini's Lion Attacking a Horse and Leopard Attacking a Bull," February 15, 2005–April 24, 2005.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. "Amico Aspertini: pittore bizzarro nell'età di Dürer e Raffaello," September 27, 2008–January 11, 2009.
Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 3 vols., New York, 1942–44, cat. no. 6 (vol.1), fig. no. 6, ill.
Alfred H. Barr Jr. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1942, cat. no. no. 6, fig. no. 6, recto, p. 6, ill.
W. Stedman Sheard Antiquity in the Renaissance. Exh. cat., Smith College. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 1980, cat. no. no. 22, fig. no. no. 22, recto.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 14, fig. no. 14, pp. 27-28, ill.
Marzia Faietti "New Drawings by Amico Aspertini." Master Drawings. Vol. 29, No. 2, 1991, pp. 149, 153, notes 24 and 38.
Marzia Faietti, Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian Amico Aspertini. Modena, 1995, (entry by Marizia Faietti), cat. no. 17, p. 234, ill.
Marzia Faietti "Paradigma di regole e di sregolatezze. L'antico a Bologna tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento" Schede Umanistiche. 18, 1, 2004, pp. 150, n. 112, 158, n. 128.
Amico Aspertini (1474-1552): artista bizzarro nell'età di Dürer e Raffaello Exh. cat. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna. Ed. by Andrea Emiliani, and Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian, Milan, 2008, p. 294, no. 99 (entry by Chiara Albonico).
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