{"id":7290,"date":"2012-10-24T14:55:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=7290"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:14:12","slug":"re08","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/re08\/","title":{"rendered":"RE.8 Opis as an Old Hag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RE.8 Boyvin?, Opis as an Old Hag<\/p><\/div>\n

Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 22.7 x 10.2 L (Vienna).<\/p>\n

Fig.RE.8<\/a> (Vienna)<\/p>\n

Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 30, 24 and n. 1, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1888\/90, I, 507, 36, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Nagler, Mon.<\/em>, III, 1863, 853, no. 4 under 2089, as Jacob Bink, and as no. 21 of his set of Gods in Niches<\/em> copied from Caraglio.\u00a0 Destailleur, 1895, 277, no. 1148.\u00a0 Linzeler, 1932, 170, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Levron, 1941, 74, 173, as shop of Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

COLLECTIONS: Paris, Ed 3, in-folio.\u00a0 Vienna, Vol. XLIX, 2, p.104, lower right.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Mariette, Ab\u00e9c\u00e9dario<\/em>, 1858-1859, as Bink after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Bousquet, 1964, ill. p.258, as Boyvin after Rosso.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1978, 40, 42, Fig. 28, 48, n. 32, as a parody of Rosso\u2019s Opis in a Niche<\/em> engraved by Caraglio, as attributed to Boyvin and done after Rosso\u2019s death probably from a design by Thiry.<\/p>\n

K. Wilson-Chevalier, in Fontainebleau<\/em>, 1985, 132-133, no. 78 (Paris), as Boyvin after Rosso or Thiry.<\/p>\n

E. Hevers, in Zauber der Medusa<\/em>, 1987, 188-189, no. III, 21, and Fig., as Boyvin after Rosso (Paris, as Inv. no. C 60413).<\/p>\n

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This engraving is a parody of Rosso\u2019s Opis in a Niche<\/em> engraved by Caraglio in 1526 in Rome (Fig.E.27<\/a>).\u00a0 In the second engraving, in reverse of the first, the goddess is shown very old and wearing a turban, the animals beneath her have been arranged somewhat differently, the donkey and fox have been eliminated, and a cock has been placed between the old Opis\u2019s somewhat more widely separated legs.\u00a0 Technically the print resembles Boyvin\u2019s manner of engraving and if not by him would seem to be by someone in his shop or a close follower, indicating not only that the print was done in France but that it was done after Rosso\u2019s death.\u00a0 (But see above, Mariette\u2019s and Nagler\u2019s attribution to Bink.)\u00a0 Such types of very old nude figures appear frequently in Rosso\u2019s art, such as the old mother in the Twins of Catania<\/em> in the Gallery of Francis I (Fig.P.22, V N a<\/a>), as pointed out by Robert-Dumesnil with reference to the engraving of this scene by Boyvin (Fig.E.11<\/a>).\u00a0 He also recognized the similarity of the old Opis to the figure of an old nymph in an engraving attributed to Boyvin (Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 35, 37).\u00a0 Although Robert-Dumesnil attributed the design of that print to Rosso, which is repeated by Bousquet (1964, caption to ill. on p.258), Kusenberg (1931, 169) thought the design was probably by Thiry, which Levron (1941, 76, 202) accepted.\u00a0 Robert-Dumesnil did state that Thiry imitated the figure of the old hag in the border of one of his Story of Jason<\/em> designs, no. 10 of the series engraved by Boyvin (Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 40, 10; Fig.RE.15,10<\/a>).\u00a0 Although the pose of this old woman, also depicted with animals, including a bear, is not precisely the same, it is exactly the kind of old, nude hag wearing a turban as the old figure of Opis.<\/p>\n

The question to answer is whether or not Rosso designed this parody of his own earlier design.\u00a0 In his Judith<\/em> drawing in Los Angeles (Fig.D.84a<\/a>) he did invent a very similar old woman as the maid.\u00a0 But this figure has a vehemence and a sharply ragged quality of flesh not found in the print.\u00a0 Furthermore, there is a subtlety of lighting and pictorial wit in the image engraved by Caraglio, as in the way the shadow of one animal is cast on the side of the niche, that is not found in the print attributed to Boyvin.\u00a0 The cock in the later work makes a certain mordant point, but not an especially sophisticated one.\u00a0 Therefore, it seems likely that the print with Opis as an old hag was designed by someone else based not only upon Caraglio\u2019s print but also upon Rosso\u2019s use of old figures in his French works.\u00a0 It is probable that the designer of the engraving was Thiry, who more than anyone else is known to have created a style by imitating, and frequently in a parodic manner, Rosso\u2019s art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Engraving by Ren\u00e9 Boyvin?, 22.7 x 10.2 L (Vienna). Fig.RE.8 (Vienna) Robert-Dumesnil, VIII, 1850, 30, 24 and n. 1, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Le Blanc, 1854-1888\/90, I, 507, 36, as Boyvin after Rosso.\u00a0 Nagler, Mon., III, 1863, 853, no. 4 under 2089, as Jacob Bink, and as no. 21 of his set of Gods in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7290","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=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9476,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7290\/revisions\/9476"}],"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=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}