A Satyr
1544/1545
Artist, Florentine, 1500 - 1571

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down, with framing line in brown ink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.6 x 20.3 cm (16 3/8 x 8 in.)
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Accession
1991.190.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Barnard [d. 1784] (Lugt 1419), London; Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853); Sir Thomas Lawrence [1769-1830] (Lugt 2445), London; Samuel Woodburn. Hans M. Calmann [1899-1982], London; (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 1 September 1959; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1960, no. 25, repro.
1965
Drawings from New York Collections I: The Italian Renaissance, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1965-66, no. 82.
1970
The Age of Vasari, University Art Gallery, Notre Dame and University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghampton, 1970, no. D7.
1971
Woodner Collection I: A Selection of Old Master Drawings before 1700, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1971-72, no. 14.
1972
L'École de Fontainebleau, Grand Palais, Paris, 1972, no. 51.
1973
Fontainebleau: Art in France 1528-1610. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1973, no. 51, pl. 67.
1976
Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 26.
1983
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 18.
1986
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 28.
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 23.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 20.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 26.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 47.
2000
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 152.
2005
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2005, no. 102.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 24-25, 274, no. 3 (color).
2014
Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors' Drawings from Renaissance Italy, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2014-2015, 20, 58, 194-196, no. 26 (color) (entry by Claudia Kryza-Gersch).
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
n.d.
Ward, Roger. "Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Washington, D.C." The Burlington Magazine 126, no. 973 (April 1984): 252 (under no. 18).
1966
Heikamp, Detlef. "In margine alla 'Vita di Baccio Bandinelli' del Vasari." Paragone 191 (1966): 53.
Vitzhum, Walter. "Drawings from New York Collections." The Burlington Magazine CVIII (1966): 110, fig. 58.
1968
Hayward, J.F. "A Newly Discovered Bronze Modello by Benvenuto Cellini." Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's & Parke-Bernet. London, 1968: 264.
Winner, Matthias. "Federskizzen von Benvenuto Cellini." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte XXXI, no. 4 (1968): 294-297.
1969
Parronchi, Alessandro. "Une tête de satyre de Cellini." Revue de l'Art 5 (1969): 43, fig. 10.
1972
Lyons, Leonard. "The Lyons Den." New York Post (March 27, 1972): 31.
1973
Woodner Collection II Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century. Exh. cat. William H. Schab Gallery Inc., New York, 1973, "Additions and Corrections to Woodner Collection I," no. 14.
1976
Bush, Virginia. Colossal Sculpture of the Cinquecento. New York, 1976: 265-66, fig. 279.
1977
Perrig, Alexander. Die "Michelangelo"-Zeichnungen Benvenutos Cellinis. Frankfurt, 1977, 81, pl. 56.
de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Ian Woodner, amateur américain de réputation mondiale, commente quelques oeuvres majeures de sa collection." Connaissance des Arts, no. 310 (December 1977): 101-103 (repro).
1981
Avery, Charles and Susanna Barbaglia. L'Opera completa del Cellini. Milan, 1981: 90, no. 33, pl. 12.
1982
Pope-Hennessy, John. "A Bronze Satyr by Cellini." The Burlington Magazine CXXIV (1982): 409-411, fig. 14.
1983
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Ed. Charles Hope and Alessandro Nova. Oxford, 1983: 131, pl. 64.
Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386 (reproduced).
1985
Pope-Hennessy, John. Cellini. New York, 1985: 135-136, pls. 70, 71.
1986
Avery, Charles. "The Pope's Goldsmith." Apollo 124 (July 1986): 62.
1987
Gardner, Paul. "The Old Master," Art News 86, no. 7 (September 1987):122, repro. 123.
Melikian, Souren. "A Master Collector, Ian Woodner: An Eye for the Future." Art & Auction 10, no. 4 (November 1987): 83, repro. p. 85.
1988
Cummings, Paul. "Interview: Ian Woodner Talks with Paul Cummings." Drawing. IX, no. 5 (January-February 1988): 107, repro.
Radcliffe, Anthony. Review of John Pope-Hennessy, Cellini, 1985. Burlington Magazine 130, no. 1029 (December 1988): 930.
1992
Poeschke, Joachim. Die Skulptur der Renaissance in Italien. Band 2, Michelangelo und seine Zeit. Munich, 1992: 210, under no. 222, repro. 211, Abb. 115.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 318, repro.
1995
Ekserdjian, David. "A Drawing by Denvenuto Cellini," Christie's International Magazine (June-July 1995), 45.
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections." Exh. brochure, unpaginated (repr.)
Scalini, Mario. Benvenuto Cellini. Antella, 1995: 21, fig. 44.
Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery of Art." Drawing 17, no. 3 (September-October 1995): 50 (repr. fig. 2).
Annesley, Noël. "Ian Woodner." Drawing 17, no. 3 (September-October 1995): 54.
1996
Poescke, Joachim. Michelangelo and His World, Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance. New York, 1996: 211, fig. 115 (trans. of 1992 German edition).
Nova, Alessandro. "Benvenuto Cellini." In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 6:141-142.
1997
Güse, Ernst-Gerhard, and Alexander Perrig, eds. Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos. Exh. cat. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken. Munich and New York, 1997: 15, 20, fig. 23, 27 n. 84, 150, fig. 2 (detail), 152, 301 n. 3.
1998
Avery, Charles. "Drawing in the Work of Italian Renaissance Sculptors." Drawing 19, no. 4 (Summer 1998): 113, fig. 1, 116.
2002
Fogelman, Peggy, Peter Fusco, and Marietta Cambareri. Italian and SPanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles, 2002: 40.
2003
Bliss, Joseph R. "Benvenuto Cellini's Satyrs for the Porte Dorée at Fontainebleau." In Large Bronzes in the Renaissance. Studies in the History of Art. Edited by P. Motture. Washington, 2003: 77-79, 81, 88, fig. 4.
Marsden, Jonathan, and Jane Bassett. "Cellini's Other Satyr for the Porte Dorée at Fontainebleau." Burlington Magazine 145, no. 1205 (August 2003): 552, 555, 557, 559.
Jestaz, Bertrand. "Benvenuto Cellini et la Cour de France (1540-1545)." In Art et artistes en France de la Renaissance à la Révolution. Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes_ 161, edited by Bertrand Jestaz. Paris and Geneva, 2003: 107, 116, fig. 11.
Fogelman, Peggy, and Peter Fusco, with Marietta Cambareri. Italian and Spanish Sculpture. Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Los Angeles, 2003: 40.
Inscriptions
lower right in brown ink: alla porta di fontana / Bellio di bronzo p[er] piu / di dua volte il vivo b[raccie] 7 / erano dua variati.
Wikidata ID
Q64537269