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Some Drawings from the Antique attributed to Pisanello

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

G. F. Hill
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A certain number of the drawings ascribed to Pisanello, both in the Recueil Vallardi in the Louvre and elsewhere, are copies, more or less free, of antique originals. The doubts which have been expressed, by Courajod among others, as to the authenticity of some of these drawings are fully justified in the case of those which reproduce ancient coins. Thus we have, on fol. 12. no. 2266 v° of the Recueil Vallardi, a coin with the head of Augustus wearing a radiate crown, inscribed DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, and a head of young Heracles in a lion's skin, doubtless taken from a tetradrachm of Alexander the Great. Similar in style and on paper with the same watermark (a triple mount) are four coins: a laureate head of Augustus (?); a radiate head of Augustus; a head of young Heracles in a lion's skin; and a bearded head of Heracles.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 3 , 1906 , pp. 296 - 303
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1906

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page 297 note 1 I have discussed these drawings briefly in my volume on Pisanello, pp. 20 ff. In the present paper the views there expressed are modified in the sense that some of the drawings previously accepted as Pisanello's I now regard as works of a pupil.

page 297 note 2 Both de Tauzia, Notice des Dessins de la Coll. His de la Salle, no. 81.

page 298 note 1 Pisanello was in Rome, working at St. John Lateran, in 1431 and 1432. Whether he ever visited it again for any length of time is doubtful.

page 300 note 1 Compare with the former such figures as are found in Clarac, ii. Pl. CXXVII, no. 421, or in the dal Pozzo drawings in the British Museum (Dept. of Gr. and Rom. Ant.), fol. 57; with the latter, dal Pozzo, fol. 58. But the correspondences are not exact.

page 300 note 2 Jahrb. d. preuss. Kunstsamml. ii. p. xxxxv. This and the other Berlin drawing to be mentioned presently are probably from the same hand as the two drawings in the British Museum, recently published by Mr.Hind, A. M. (L'Arte 1005, pp. 210 f.Google Scholar). Apart from general resemblances of style, compare the right hand of the Tiber-statue with those of the standing figure (L'Arte 1905, p. 211) and of the St. Anthony (Hill, Pisanello, Pl. 43); and the hands of the figures in the boar-hunt (Pl. XXXI., Fig. 2) with that of the figure holding an eagle (L'Arte 1905, p. 210).

page 300 note 3 See Michaelis, Röm. Mitth. 1891, pp. 26, 33, 61; 1898, pp. 254 f.; cp. Lanciani, Ruins and Excavations, p. 296.

page 301 note 1 Probably from the same hand as the two Berlin drawings.

page 302 note 1 Robert, C., Sarkophagreliefs, vol. ii. nos. 156, 157, Pl. LVGoogle Scholar.

page 302 note 2 Robert, vol. iii. no. 20, Pl. V.

page 302 note 3 Lasinio, Pl. 109.

page 303 note 1 Hill, Pisanello, p. 5.