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Title:Winged Infant Riding a Crouching Horse
Artist:Giulio Romano (Italian, Rome 1499?–1546 Mantua)
Date:n.d.
Medium:Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:sheet: 4 13/16 x 6 3/8 in. (12.2 x 16.2 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008
Accession Number:2008.178.2
Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink, at lower right: Giulio Romano
Marking: [Collector's stamps of Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2886), Pierre-Jean Mariette (Lugt 2097), Count Moriz von Fries (Lugt 2903), and Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445)]
Nicholas Lanier (British); Pierre Jean Mariette (French); Count Moriz von Fries (Austrian), Vienna; Sir Thomas Lawrence (British); Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (British), by descent to; John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland (British); his sale, Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1972, lot 23; John Steiner and Alice F. Steiner (American); Steiner Family Collection by descent
Cambridge. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums. "Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner," November 18, 1977–January 15, 1978.
Williamstown. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. "Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner," February 7, 1978–March 20, 1978.
Hunter College Art Galleries, New York. "Giulio Romano, Master Designer (1499-1546)," September 14, 1999–November 24, 1999.
Frederick Hartt Giulio Romano. 2 Vols., New Haven, 1958, pp. 126, 296, no. 159.
Julien Stock The Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection, Part II: Drawings by Giulio Romano and other Sixteenth-century Masters Sale cata., Tuesday 5th December, 1972. London, 1972, p. 52, lot no. 23, fig. 23.
Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner. Exh. cat. Edited by Konrad Oberhuber, Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977, pp. 78, 81, no. 27 (as Giulio Romano; entry by Peter Freeman), ill.
Egon Verheyen The Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Images of Love and Politics. Baltimore and London, 1977, p. 122.
Stefania Massari Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit : opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega. Fratelli Palombi, Rome, 1993, p. 228, fig. 105, ill.
Amedeo Belluzzi Palazzo Te a Mantova / The Palazzo Te in Mantua. Modena, 1998, p. 415, fig. 294, fig. no. 294.
Janet Cox-Rearick Giulio Romano: Master Designer. Exh. cat., The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, and Hunter College of the City of New York. New York, 1999, pp. 86-87, no. 21 (as Williamstown, Clark Art Institute, on long term loan from the collection of Alice Steiner; entry by Christine Begley).
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