River God

c. 1528

Giulio Romano

Artist, Roman, 1499 - 1546

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts

  • Dimensions

    Overall (lunette): 17 x 27.5 cm (6 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
    overall: 86.3 cm (34 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.29.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); John Barnard (Lugt 1420); Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); (Samuel Woodburn); Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (Lugt 2710b); (Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd.); NGA purchase in 1973.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings, The Museums and Art Gallery, Leicester, 1954, no. 93.

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 16.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 38.

1979

  • The Draftsman's Eye, Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979 (catalogue published in 1981), pp. 18, 54, no. 62.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1989

  • Fürstenhöfe der Renaissance, Giulio Romano und die Klassische Tradition, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1989, pp. 136, 138, no. IV/12.

  • Giulio Romano, Palazzo Te, Mantua, 1989, pp. 232, 346, 349.

1999

  • Giulio Romano: Master Designer, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery of Hunter College, New York, 1999, pp. 17, 20, 24, 27, 34, 75, 76, 78, 82, 142, no. 19.

2003

  • "The Radiance of Apollo: the Italian Renaissance and Greece", National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004, no. 155.

2020

  • Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1898

  • Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House. London, 1898: no. 58.

1939

  • Bodmer, Heinrich. Lodovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg, 1939: 150, no. 54 (as Ludovico Carracci).

1958

  • Hartt, Frederick. Giulio Romano. New Haven, 1958, 1: 140, 297, no. 176.

1977

  • Verheyen, Egon. The Palazzo del Te in Mantua, Images of Love and Politics. Baltimore and London, 1977: 118.

1998

  • Belluzzi, Amedeo. Palazzo Te a Mantova/The Palazzo Te in Mantua. Modena, 1998, 1: 385, fig. 237.

Wikidata ID

Q64572470

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