{"id":3812,"date":"2012-04-04T16:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T20:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=3812"},"modified":"2012-08-17T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:17:14","slug":"e-15-boyvin-madonna-and-child","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-15-boyvin-madonna-and-child\/","title":{"rendered":"E.15 Madonna and Child with a Book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.15 Boyvin?, Madonna and Child with a Book<\/p><\/div>\n

Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 20.1 x 15.1 L (New York).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.15<\/a> (Vienna)<\/p>\n

Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 20, no. 6, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 506, 61, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Levron, 1941, 74, no. 163, as shop of Boyvin, after Rosso.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: New York, 32.92.27(4).\u00a0 Paris, Ed 3.\u00a0 Vienna, F.I.3, p.3, no. 5.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Destailleur, 1895, 276, no. 1145, as Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 160, as Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Linzeler, 1932, 167, as Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1987, 44, 362-363, no. 115, with Fig. (New York).<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin, 1988 (1989), 15, as Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

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The attribution of the design of this print to Rosso has never been questioned.\u00a0 In the largeness of its forms filling the area of the picture, as well as in the shuttling drapery patterns, the Madonna and Child with a Book<\/em> resembles Rosso\u2019s Piet\u00e0<\/em> in the Louvre (Fig.P.23a<\/a>).\u00a0 The Madonna\u2019s face with its downward slanted eyebrow, long straight nose, and full lips also resembles the faces in that painting.\u00a0 The Virgin\u2019s ruffled bonnet is like that in the Dei Altarpiece (Fig.P.12c<\/a>) and in the Holy Family<\/em> known from a copy in Milan (Fig.D.82<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Grand in size and expression and finely elegant as well, the invention of this composition would seem to belong to the latter part of Rosso\u2019s career in France.\u00a0 It would seem to have been done in 1538-1540, around the time of the Empedocles-St. Roch<\/em> (Fig.D.80a<\/a>), the Holy Family<\/em> mentioned above, and the Annunciation<\/em> in D\u00fcsseldorf (Fig.D.83<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Without his name or monogram, Boyvin\u2019s authorship of the print is not certain, although it does resemble his style and could have been made in his shop.\u00a0 Whether or not the engraving reverses Rosso\u2019s lost image cannot be said for sure, but the gesture of Christ\u2019s arm around the Virgin\u2019s neck and the Virgin holding a book both with their right arms and hands suggest that the engraving is in the same direction as Rosso\u2019s original image.\u00a0 Most of the prints associated with Boyvin for which Rosso\u2019s original compositions survive have been reversed in the engraving.\u00a0 Consequently, the Madonna and Child with a Book\u00a0<\/em>engraving is most likely not by Boyvin.\u00a0 Its technique, which appears less regular than Boyvin\u2019s usual manner, looks rather like Pierre Milan\u2019s.\u00a0 The print is probably based on a lost drawing by Rosso similar to that used for the Dream of Hercules<\/em> (Fig.D.78a<\/a> and Fig.E.17<\/a>).\u00a0 A picture of this composition of the Madonna and Child with a Book<\/em> is not recorded to have been painted.<\/p>\n

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Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 20.1 x 15.1 L (New York). Fig.E.15 (Vienna) Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 20, no. 6, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 506, 61, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Levron, 1941, 74, no. 163, as shop of Boyvin, after Rosso. COLLECTIONS: New York, 32.92.27(4).\u00a0 Paris, Ed 3.\u00a0 Vienna, F.I.3, p.3, no. 5. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3812","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3812","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=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6546,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3812\/revisions\/6546"}],"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=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}