{"id":4087,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4087"},"modified":"2013-02-21T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:03:35","slug":"e-60-du-cerceau-apollo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-60-du-cerceau-apollo\/","title":{"rendered":"E.60 Apollo holding a Lyre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.60 Du Cerceau?, Apollo holding a Lyre<\/p><\/div>\n

Etching by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau?, 26.2 x 14.5 (Herbet).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.60<\/a> (Paris)<\/p>\n

Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 45, 21, as 26.2? x 14.5?, and as Du Cerceau after Rosso.\u00a0 Herbet, IV, 1900, 309 (1969, 159), 4, as Du Cerceau after Rosso.<\/p>\n

COLLECTION: Paris, Bd 19, Vol. I (Primatice), fol. 57, the upper right corner missing, holes at the left edge, on torso, at lower left, and at lower right; inscribed in ink with a number in the lower left corner, perhaps: 466<\/em>.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Mariette, Ab\u00e9c\u00e9dario<\/em>, 1858-1859, 19-20, as would seem to be by P. de Jode after Rosso, not after Annibale Carracci as has been written; Mariette said the same figure can be found in a cartouche by Rosso [which I do not know].<\/p>\n

Geym\u00fcller, 1887, 323, as Du Cerceau after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Kusenberg, 1931, 169, as Du Cerceau not after Rosso but by the same artist who designed the Apollo Slaying the Niobids<\/em> (Bartsch, XVI, 425-426, 125, and Herbet, IV, 1900, 309, 3, as Du Cerceau after Primaticcio).<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1987, 334, n. 1, under no. 104, may have wrongly identified this etching with the engraving [E.151] of the same composition, depending on which print is related to the earlier citations.<\/p>\n

Boorsch, 1988, 9, Fig. 6, as after Rosso.<\/p>\n

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This print is related to, but not based on, Rosso\u2019s drawing in the Louvre (Fig.D.76Aa<\/a>), which seems to have been made for his lost decoration of the Salle Haute in the Pavillon des Po\u00eales at Fontainebleau (L.43<\/a>).\u00a0 The print is in the same direction as the drawing.\u00a0 In the print, the indentations at the sides of the area containing the figure appear as in the drawing although farther apart so that the area containing the figure is slightly broader in the etching.\u00a0 However, there is no indication in the etching of the half-circle shape of this area at the top and bottom as appears in Rosso\u2019s drawing.<\/p>\n

It would seem that this etching, with its somewhat different and finer details and in general more finished appearance, is based on a later lost drawing by Rosso for the same project (as distinct from the engraving, E.151<\/a>, which is based on Rosso\u2019s surviving drawing).\u00a0 The largest change is the transformation of the ornamental drapery behind Apollo upon which he sits into what is more obviously a cloak that he lifts with his right hand and that falls over his left shoulder and around his left arm.\u00a0 Where in Rosso\u2019s drawing his right hand holds up the skin of one of Marsyas\u2019s arms, in the etching this hand is meant to appear to\u00a0 be holding up his cloak as though to look beyond it.\u00a0 Marsyas\u2019s skin has become a length of fur somehow attached to his cloak, another smaller length of fur appearing at his left wrist.\u00a0 The passage of drapery on which Apollo sits has now a scalloped edge.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, in the etching, Apollo\u2019s torso has become more muscular, the ornamental head on the harp has been moved to the top of the instrument and appears realistic, and the quiver is decoratively elaborated at both ends.\u00a0 More significantly, Apollo\u2019s expression has become pleasant, losing the perplexity on his face in Rosso\u2019s drawing and in the anonymous engraving made from it (Fig.E.151<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Stylistically, the Apollo<\/em> etching is closely related to Rosso\u2019s Diana Shooting with Her Bow<\/em>, known from another print by the same etcher (Fig.E.61<\/a>).\u00a0 It is not certain that this etcher is Du Cerceau.<\/p>\n

See E.151<\/a>, Anonymous, Apollo Holding a Lyre<\/em>, also probably related to the decoration of the Salle Haute.<\/p>\n

See E.152<\/a>, Anonymous, Venus and Cupid<\/em>, also probably related to the decoration of the Salle Haute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etching by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau?, 26.2 x 14.5 (Herbet). Fig.E.60 (Paris) Le Blanc, 1854-1890, I, 45, 21, as 26.2? x 14.5?, and as Du Cerceau after Rosso.\u00a0 Herbet, IV, 1900, 309 (1969, 159), 4, as Du Cerceau after Rosso. COLLECTION: Paris, Bd 19, Vol. I (Primatice), fol. 57, the upper right corner missing, holes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4087","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=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8590,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4087\/revisions\/8590"}],"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=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}