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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.236
People
Attributed to Leonard Thiry, French (active Fontainebleau, 1536 - 1550 Antwerp)
After Giovanni Battista di Jacopo called Rosso Fiorentino, Italian (Florence, Italy 1494 - 1540 Fontainebleau, France)
Previously attributed to René Boyvin, French (Angers c. 1530 - c. 1598 Angers(?))
Title
Death of Adonis
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296112

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on cream card, corners made up
Dimensions
irregular: 25.5 x 36 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: mount, bottom center, graphite: 242 (4)
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Lugt 911
  • collector's mark: lower right, blue ink: Lugt 2500
  • inscription: mount, center, graphite: 32 (underlined)
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: R/B./2000
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: 2
  • inscription: verso, upper left, orange pencil: Le Rosso (underlined)/ voir les dessins du Louvre
  • inscription: verso, top center, graphite: No 32 (underlined)
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: E+ (underlined)/ Raphael/ attribué à Marc Antoine Remond/ Mort d'Adonis
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: G. Roman
  • inscription: verso, lower left, black ink: J Cousin
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: E+ (underlined)/ favet Collon [the last two letters in superscript] lemoin (underlined)
  • inscription: verso, upper right, graphite: Ecole Italin (sic)/ Venise

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Ferdinand Louis, Marquis de Valori-Rustichelli, Paris (his mark, L. 2500); Emile Wauters, Paris (his mark, L. 911); Frederik Muller; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs (by 1920), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965, inv. no. 1965.236

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.236
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The dying Adonis, in the center foreground, is being lifted by winged genii and putti up to the chariot of Venus at the upper right; Venus, in the chariot, is tearing her hair in sorrow; at the upper left a putto is carrying aloft the garments of the wounded Adonis.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 568, p. 299. vol. III, fig. 286, repr.
  • Hélène Gasnault, Léonard Tyri de Belges peintre excellent: entre imitation et création (ca 1500-1550), Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art (Voulangis, France, 2012), no. 10, pp. 12-20, pp. 12-14, 19 n. 23, fig. 1, repr. (as Léonard Thiry)

Verification Level

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