A Grotesque with Diana of Ephesus and Diverse Animals

1555

Master AP

Associated Names
Master AP

Artist, Italian, active mid 16th century

This is a drawing featuring a central figure surrounded by two human-like entities with wings, a structure above the central figure supported by two bird-like creatures, two stags with impressive antlers on either side of the central figure, and a creature with features of a dog and a bird in the foreground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 42.2 x 16.8 cm (16 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.34.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 2, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Artemis, London); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1858

  • Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Kunstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919.

1986

  • Boorsch, Suzanne and John Spike. The Illustrated Bartsch (31). p. 381.

Inscriptions

upper right in plate: AP (in monogram); upper left in plate: 1555; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Ma AP Bartsch 2; center verso in gray ink: Vostre

Watermarks

small coat of arms

Wikidata ID

Q75406838

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