{"id":3806,"date":"2012-04-04T16:46:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=3806"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:09:34","slug":"e-13-boyvin-athena","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-13-boyvin-athena\/","title":{"rendered":"E.13 Contest of Athena and Poseidon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.13 Boyvin?, Contest of Athena and Posiedon<\/p><\/div>\n

Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 12.2 x 24.4 L (Paris, Ba 12).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.13<\/a> (Paris, Ba 12)<\/p>\n

Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 45, no. 67, as Boyvin attempting the manner of \u00c9tienne Delaune, after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 506, 17, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Herbet, III, 1899, 36 (1969, 124).\u00a0 Levron, 1941, 75, no. 182, as shop of Boyvin.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: London, 1982 U 293.\u00a0 Lyons, exhibited (private collection, Dunand, 1973, no. 31, Fig. 18).\u00a0 New York, 32.92.27(14). Paris, Ba 12; Ed3; SNR (2 impressions).\u00a0 Vienna, F.I.3, p.24, no. 60.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 161.<\/p>\n

Linzeler, 1932, 177.<\/p>\n

Zerner, in EdF<\/em>, 1972, 265, under no. 312, as attributed probably wrongly to Boyvin.<\/p>\n

Zerner in Fontainebleau<\/em>, 1972, II, 83, under no. 312.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1987, 302, 303-304, n. 1, under no. 96.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The active figures in this scene and its planar but also energetic composition recall such paintings by Rosso as the Twins of Catania<\/em> (Fig.P.22, V N a<\/a>) and the Cleobis and Biton<\/em> (Fig.P.22, V S a<\/a>) in the Gallery of Francis I.\u00a0 It resembles Rosso\u2019s Pandora and Her Box<\/em> drawing (Fig.D.67a<\/a>) as well.\u00a0 The scene is certainly Rosso\u2019s invention, as has always been recognized, and would seem to have been made around 1536.\u00a0 It is possible that it was designed to have a place in the decoration of the East Wall of the gallery (see D.66<\/a>).\u00a0 The engraving is most probably based on a lost drawing by Rosso where, as is characteristic of some of his drawings, the wreath of victory was described as a simple band without leaves and the moldings of the architecture at the right were left undescribed.\u00a0 Given the gestures of the figures, with Victory, Athena, and Poseidon all holding their \u201cgifts\u201d with their left hands, it is likely that the engraving reverses Rosso\u2019s drawing, as also shown by the partial copy of a lost drawing by him (Fig.D.66<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The attribution of this engraving to Boyvin has been questioned by Zerner.\u00a0 Its technique does not show his regular and smoothly consistent manner.<\/p>\n

Fantuzzi also reproduced this scene in an etching probably made from another drawing by Rosso, possibly the drawing known from a partial copy in Paris.\u00a0 Boyvin\u2019s scene is longer at the left where somewhat more architecture is seen, as well as the almost full figure of Victory.\u00a0 The upper limit of Boyvin\u2019s scene is lower.\u00a0 At the far right the sea monster is somewhat differently described and there is a statue in the niche in the background.\u00a0 Water is also seen at the lower right.<\/p>\n

On the relation of this engraving to a drawing in the Louvre (Fig.Paris, 8738<\/a>), see under D.66.<\/p>\n

COPY, PAINTING: Boyvin\u2019s print was used as the model for the nineteenth century painting over the central door of the West Wall of the Gallery of Francis I (see P.22, West Wall<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 12.2 x 24.4 L (Paris, Ba 12). Fig.E.13 (Paris, Ba 12) Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 45, no. 67, as Boyvin attempting the manner of \u00c9tienne Delaune, after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 506, 17, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Herbet, III, 1899, 36 (1969, 124).\u00a0 Levron, 1941, 75, no. 182, as shop of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3806\/revisions\/6543"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}