{"id":4171,"date":"2012-04-05T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=4171"},"modified":"2013-06-04T17:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:06:57","slug":"e-83-fantuzzi-cartouche-sleeping-putti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/engravings\/e-83-fantuzzi-cartouche-sleeping-putti\/","title":{"rendered":"E.83 Cartouche: Two Sleeping Putti Above Framing a Blank Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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E.83 Fantuzzi, Cartouche with Sleeping Putti<\/p><\/div>\n

Possibly in part after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 32.6 x 25.9 S (Paris).<\/p>\n

Fig.E.83<\/a> (Zerner: Paris)<\/p>\n

Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 423-424, 115, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau.\u00a0 Herbet, V, 1902, 72 (1969, 224), 97, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, XLIV, and A.F.42 (Paris), as done in 1542-1543.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: Paris, Eb 14d.\u00a0 Vienna, H.B.XIII, 2, p.61, no. 414 (slightly cut at right).<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Berliner, 1925-1926, I, Pl. 119, 2, Text Volume, 42, as Fantuzzi.<\/p>\n

Zerner, IB<\/em>, 33, 391.<\/p>\n

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The design of this etching has never been attributed to Rosso and yet it has certain characteristics and details that suggest that it may go back to a design by him.\u00a0 The sleeping putti resemble the sleeping boys in the Petrarch drawing at Christ Church (Fig.D.47a<\/a>), which has at the very center a woman with uplifted arms similar to the figure under the oculus in the etching.\u00a0 The flat strapwork in the cartouche is similar to that surrounding the Revenge of Nauplius<\/em> in the Gallery of Francis I (Fig.P.22, III N a<\/a>).\u00a0 But there are other aspects of the design that suggest the composition is not wholly based on a design by Rosso.\u00a0 The central motif at the bottom is not like any other by him.\u00a0 At the sides, the two putti at the bottom, which could well be Rosso\u2019s inventions, have nothing to stand on.\u00a0 What is possible is that the etcher worked from a fragmentary drawing and made up, but not entirely, what was missing at the bottom.\u00a0 The outermost strapwork at the sides might also be additions.<\/p>\n

What is identifiable with Rosso seems to date from about the time of the Petrarch drawing or of the designs for the Pavilion of Pomona (L.39<\/a>), which are known from two etchings by Fantuzzi, of the central scene (Fig.E.62a<\/a>) and of the frame (Fig.E.63<\/a>), and which show bald-headed putti similar to those in the cartouche.\u00a0 A date around 1533-1534 seems likely.\u00a0 On the possibility that this cartouche is related to what Rosso may have designed for the Small Gallery at Fontainebleau, see L.41<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Possibly in part after Rosso. Etching by Antonio Fantuzzi, 32.6 x 25.9 S (Paris). Fig.E.83 (Zerner: Paris) Bartsch, XVI, 1818, 423-424, 115, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau.\u00a0 Herbet, V, 1902, 72 (1969, 224), 97, as Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau.\u00a0 Zerner, 1969, XLIV, and A.F.42 (Paris), as done in 1542-1543. COLLECTIONS: Paris, Eb 14d.\u00a0 Vienna, H.B.XIII, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":824,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9359,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4171\/revisions\/9359"}],"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=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}