1530 – 1531<\/p>\n
In the record of payment to Rosso for his livelihood in November and December 1530 and from January through July 1531 (DOC.15<\/a>) it is mentioned that \u201cdurant lequel temps il a faict un grant tableau pour le Roy.\u201d\u00a0 The same document indicates that a frame for this painting (\u201cbois et entretailleure d\u2019icelluy tableau\u201d) was carved by Francesco Scibec de Carpi, which was gilt (\u201cfa\u00e7on dud. aornement de bois\u201d) by Jehan Poulletier.\u00a0 Archangelle de Platte was paid to crate the picture and ship it to Fontainebleau.<\/p>\n Jehan Poulletier\u2019s work is also recorded in the following document of payment of 8 July 1531:<\/p>\n Min. de Guillaume Payen, notaire au Ch\u00e2telet de Paris:<\/p>\n \u201c8 juillet 1531. – Jehan Poulletier, paintre dem. a Paris rue de la Vennerie, confesse avoir convenu et marchand\u00e9 a noble homme Me<\/sup> Julian de Bonacourcy, tr\u00e9sorier et receveur gal<\/sup> de Provence, a ce pr\u00e9sent, de dorer bien et deument de fin or, comme il apartient, une grande bordure et ornement de tableau fait pour le Roy, nostre Sire, fors les costez de dehors, selon le devis fait entre eulx, et icelle grant bordure et aornement promect rendre et delivrer bien et deument dor\u00e9, comme dit est, aud. Bonacourcy dedans le dix-septi\u00e8me jour de ce pr\u00e9sent moys de Juillet, moyt<\/sup> le pris et somme de Six vingts livres t… Fait et pass\u00e9 double l\u2019an mil Vc<\/sup> trente et ung le samedi VIIIe<\/sup> jour de juillet. – G. Payen.\u201d1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Roy believed that the picture mentioned in this document was a painted copy by Rosso of Michelangelo\u2019s Leda<\/i> but that painting and its cartoon did not arrive in France until early 1532, and although Rosso did make a copy of Michelangelo\u2019s cartoon around 1538 (Fig.D.74a<\/a>), there is no sure evidence that he executed a painting of this subject.\u00a0 Venturi, IX, 5, 1932, 196, mentions the documents related to Rosso\u2019s lost picture as having been erroneously connected to a copy of Michelangelo\u2019s Leda<\/i>, which, he points out, had not yet arrived in France.\u00a0 Cox-Rearick, 1972, 35, believes it may have been a picture painted from Rosso\u2019s Mars and Venus<\/i> drawing.\u00a0 This is possible, especially as this drawing was specifically made for the king who, partly on the basis, apparently, of his pleasure with it, invited Rosso to France.\u00a0 But there is no evidence from the sixteenth century that Rosso executed such a painting.\u00a0 The one picture of this subject ascribed to him in the seventeenth century is referred to by Cassiano del Pozzo as \u201cun quadretto\u201d and by Dan as \u201cen petit,\u201d hardly, then, the \u201cgrant tableau\u201d executed in 1530-1531.\u00a0 For the suggestion that the large painting may have been Rosso\u2019s lost Judith<\/i> known from Boyvin\u2019s engraving, see E.7<\/a>, L.35<\/a>, and Carroll, 1987, 182, n. 7, under no. 59.\u00a0 It is possible that the frame for the \u201cgrant tableau\u201d carved by Francesco Scibec was designed by Rosso; see L.38<\/a> for the frame Rosso\u00a0designed for Michelangelo\u2019s Leda<\/i>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n