{"id":6976,"date":"2012-09-27T17:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=6976"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:08:30","slug":"rd-22","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/rd-22\/","title":{"rendered":"RD.22 Design for a Covered Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RD.22 Design for a Covered Cup<\/p><\/div>\n

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 2286.<\/p>\n

Fig.RD.22<\/a><\/p>\n

Pen and ink and wash, 26 x 20.7.\u00a0 The design has been traced with a stylus.\u00a0 Inscribed in ink in the lower left corner: Leonard Thierry<\/em>, and below this name, also in ink: 293<\/em>, with a pen line through it.<\/p>\n

PROVENANCE: Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445).<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1964 (1976), I, Bk. I, 253, II, Bk. II, 412-415, D. 48 (COPY), Bk. III, Fig. 127, as a copy done before 1543 of a lost drawing by Rosso of ca. 1533-1538, and in the \u201cPreface\u201d of 1976, vii, as questionable that it is after Rosso.<\/p>\n

B\u00e9guin, RdA<\/em>, 1969, 105, Fig. 12, as by Thiry and showing the same design as an etching by Fantuzzi (Zerner, 1969, A.F. 54b).<\/p>\n

Berckenhagen, 1970, 11, under no. 6560.<\/p>\n

Brugerolles and Guillet, 1994, 104, 106, n. 9, under no. 36, as Thiry.<\/p>\n

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The drawing is related to an etching of 1543 by Fantuzzi (Fig.RD.22, Etching<\/a>) in the same direction.\u00a0 But they are not identical.\u00a0 The design of the ring at the top of the cover is slightly different and the putto holding it is bald in the print.\u00a0 In the print the bunches of grapes on the lid hang over its rim.\u00a0 The satyr below at the left in the etching has breasts but not in the drawing.\u00a0 At the bottom left the putto is bald in the drawing, and the putto at the right has no visible head. Furthermore, the designs of the bases are different.\u00a0 Thus the drawing was not the direct model for the print, and the stylus marks on the drawing may have been made when it was traced from another drawing.<\/p>\n

It is clear that the penmanship of the Covered Cup<\/em> is too feathery to be Rosso\u2019s, and the washes too indecisively placed to be his.\u00a0 The draughtsmanship seems to be the same as that of the copy of Rosso\u2019s Education of Achilles<\/em> (Fig.D.53<\/a>).\u00a0 It is likely that the draughtsman is Leonard Thiry, whose name is inscribed (by Padre Resta?) on the sheet; the same inscription in the same hand appears on the copy of Rosso\u2019s Allegory of Deceit<\/em> (Fig.D.56<\/a>).1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

In 1964 I argued that the drawing is a copy of a lost drawing by Rosso but this is not an opinion I hold now.\u00a0 The figural vocabulary reflects his in France, but it lacks the stylistic sharpness in the poses and the expressive passion of his figures.\u00a0 The use of the grapevine appears too naturalistic for him, and lacks in its description the wit of Rosso\u2019s decoration.\u00a0 It is surprising that there is no strapwork on the object, as there is in the Design for a Candlestick<\/em> that seems very likely to be his invention (Fig.D.49<\/a>).\u00a0 One might well wonder if Rosso would have left the top of the cup above the grapevine so completely unornamented.\u00a0 It seems to be most probable that the Design for a Covered Cup<\/em> is Thiry\u2019s invention, and also drawn by him, as the old inscription indicates.\u00a0 The design seems to have existed in another version to which Fantuzzi\u2019s etching would probably have been more closely related, as also the drawing in Berlin (see below).<\/p>\n

OTHER VERSION: Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, no. 6560 (Fig.RD.22, Copy<\/a>).\u00a0 Pen and brown ink and brown wash, 30.9 x 24.6, sheet somewhat soiled.\u00a0 Inscribed in ink at the lower right: PL<\/em> (combined as a monogram), and at the lower left: Peter Lastmann (geb. zu Harlem 1562) Schuler Rembrandt\u2019s<\/em>.\u00a0 PROVENANCE: Adalbert von Lanna, Prague (Lugt 2773, on the verso<\/em>).\u00a0 Professor Michelis, Weimar (note in pencil on the verso<\/em>).\u00a0 Marc Rosenberg.\u00a0 LITERATURE: Berckenhagen, 1970, 10-11, no. 6560, under Rosso, as a copy of Fantuzzi\u2019s etching.<\/p>\n

Details of the drawing – the design of the base, for example – indicate that the drawing was not copied from Fantuzzi\u2019s etching.\u00a0 It was also not copied from the drawing in London; the satyr at the left has breasts, and the putto at the lower right has a visible head.\u00a0 Thus the drawing would seem to go back to the drawing from which the London drawing is also derived.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1<\/sup> On the handwriting as Padre Resta\u2019s, see the specimen, Lugt 2992.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 2286. Fig.RD.22 Pen and ink and wash, 26 x 20.7.\u00a0 The design has been traced with a stylus.\u00a0 Inscribed in ink in the lower left corner: Leonard Thierry, and below this name, also in ink: 293, with a pen line through it. PROVENANCE: Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445). LITERATURE: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6976","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976","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=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9450,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6976\/revisions\/9450"}],"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=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}