The Emperor Aulus Vitellius, 1565/1570

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash heightened with white over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 39.8 × 25.8 cm (15 11/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1975.71.3

Artists / Makers

Paolo Farinati (artist) Veronese, 1524 - 1606

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in brown ink: A.VITELIVS. / GERMAN.IMP. / AUG.P.M.TR.P; across top verso in brown ink: (10 lines of Italian, Latin, and Greek concerning antique medals ot coins); seventeenth century pen "P.P. Rubens/4.3"; later blue chalk "Rubens"

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely [1618-1680] (Lugt 2092), London; Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bloch, London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 November 1964, lot 64); Hallsborough Gallery, London; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1975, lot 194); purchased (cia Yvonne tan Bunzl) by NGA, 1975.

Associated Names

Bloch, Victor, Dr.
Lely, Peter, Sir
Sotheby's
tan Bunzl, Yvonne, Ms.

Exhibition History

1978: NGA Master Drawings 1978, p. 44-45.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 26.

Bibliography

1971: Disegni veronesi del cinquecento. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1971: 44-45.

1974: Magagnato, L. 50 ANNI DI PITTURA VERONESE 1580-1630, Verona: 1974: 59, 90-91.

1975: Sotheby's, London, 7/4/75: 194.

1977: Bailey, Stephen Bailey, “Metamorphoses of the Grimani ‘Vitellius’" The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal. 5, 1977: 114