{"id":6934,"date":"2012-09-27T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=6934"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:05:33","slug":"rd-01","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/rd-01\/","title":{"rendered":"RD.1 Figure in Mask and Costume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RD.1 Figure in Mask and Costume<\/p><\/div>\n

Figure in Mask and Costume, as Flora or Spring?<\/p>\n

Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 2382.<\/p>\n

Fig.RD.1<\/a><\/p>\n

Pen and ink and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, with two lines of red chalk through the skirt and two red chalk loops in the upper left corner, 28.6 x 20.9; laid down.\u00a0 Inscribed in ink at the upper right above the bouquet the figure holds: ung bouquet de fleur<\/em>, and at the lower left: quelque chose de sub \/ sa guott [cancelled] guotte<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PROVENANCE: Destailleur Collection, no. 128 (Lugt 740, and Berckenhagen, below).<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Berckenhagen, 1968, 12, and Fig. 2, as by Boyvin (?).<\/p>\n

Berckenhagen, 1970, 32, with Fig., as Boyvin.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin, 1970, 91-92, Fig. 28, as Boyvin.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin, in EdF<\/em>, 1972, 28, under no. 30, as by Rosso or his school.<\/p>\n

Gifford, 1974, 393, as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Brugerolles and Guillet, 1994, 110, n. 17.<\/p>\n

Acton, in French Renaissance<\/em>, 1994, 314, n. 3, under nos. 76-79, as with annotations that may have been meant for the costume maker.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin, 1995, 192-193, on the basis of the drawings of masks in Ensba, Paris [see under RE.13], perhaps by Thiry, although hitherto it has been attributed to Boyvin.<\/p>\n

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Berckenhagen and B\u00e9guin related this drawing to the drawing of a Costumed Male Figure Carrying a Small Decorated Box<\/em> in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale in Paris (Fig.RD.26<\/a>).\u00a0 In 1965-1966 B\u00e9guin questioned Rosso\u2019s authorship of the Paris drawing, which had been recognized as Rosso\u2019s by Kusenberg in 1931.\u00a0 In 1964 I thought it was a copy of a lost drawing by Rosso.\u00a0 Then in 1972, B\u00e9guin, following Berckenhagen, decided that Boyvin did the Paris drawing.\u00a0 In 1935 Kusenberg thought the Paris drawing to be by L\u00e9onard Thiry, and B\u00e9guin brought his name up again in 1995.\u00a0 I believe Clifford is right in saying that \u201cthere seems to be no reason to attribute [these two drawings in Berlin and Paris] to Boyvin.\u201d\u00a0 But I do not think he is correct in finding them to be by Rosso, although he thought the Paris drawing might be a contemporary copy.\u00a0 He judged the Berlin sheet from a photograph.<\/p>\n

I have seen both of these drawings and neither, individually, appears to me now to be by Rosso.\u00a0 The style of the costumes, while related to those in Rosso\u2019s Three Fates, Costume Designs<\/em>, engraved by Boyvin (Fig.E.104<\/a>), as Clifford indicated, is not intrinsically identifiable with Rosso\u2019s style (on which see RD.26<\/a>).\u00a0 Furthermore, the draughtsmanship of the drawings, which I believe to be by the same hand (as I look at photographs of them), has not the precision of Rosso\u2019s pen and ink and wash drawings, such as his Annunciation<\/em> in the Albertina (Fig.D.43a<\/a>) or his Design for a Tomb <\/em>(Fig.D.81a<\/a>).\u00a0 The looseness of the draughtsmanship of the Berlin and Paris drawings seems at one with a casualness of the design of the costumes and of the description of the figures that suggest a specific artistic personality, but not Rosso\u2019s.\u00a0 A companion of these drawings is almost certainly the Costumed Male Figure Holding Two Torches<\/em> engraved by Boyvin (Fig.RE.12<\/a>).\u00a0 But there is no evidence that Boyvin designed his own prints or even made the drawings from which he engraved his plates.\u00a0 The drawings do not seem to be by Thiry.\u00a0 They would, however, seem to follow from Rosso\u2019s art but after Rosso\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Figure in Mask and Costume, as Flora or Spring? Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 2382. Fig.RD.1 Pen and ink and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, with two lines of red chalk through the skirt and two red chalk loops in the upper left corner, 28.6 x 20.9; laid down.\u00a0 Inscribed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6934\/revisions\/9430"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}