Skeleton of a Quadruped

1620-1621

Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, called Napoletano

Associated Names
Teodoro Filippo di Liagno

Artist, Italian, 1589 - 1629

This is a drawing of an animal skeleton. The drawing shows the skeletal structure of an animal. The skeleton features a curved spine, detailed ribcage, limb bones, and a skull with prominent eye sockets and a jaw. The illustration is placed on a textured or creviced surface. Above the skeleton is an inscription in Latin script.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from Virginia Mars

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.2 × 14.4 cm (3 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.4 × 17.4 cm (4 1/2 × 6 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.5.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chiarini, no. 423

  • Series Title

    Animal Skeletons

More About this Artwork

Article:  Smithsonian Scientists on How Artists Depicted Five Curious Creatures

Staff at the National Museum of Natural History helped us identify the animals and insects in our collection.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA); NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • Little Beasts: Art Wonder and the Natural World, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2025.

Bibliography

2007

  • Chiarini, Marco. Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto Filippo Napoletano, 1589-1629: Vite e opere. Florence: Centro Di, 2007, no. 423.

Inscriptions

in plate, at top: Cum furtim hic Subeas quadrupes nec veste corustes / Nomen ut haud habeas, haec tibi poena datur; bottom left corner of sheet, in pen and ink by a later hand: 24

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