(a) Corinthian colonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (left); (b) Composite colonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (centre); (c) details of the elevation of the entablature, capital and base of a Corinthian, Composite and Doric order (right)

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Dimensionsh x w: 30 x 45 cm

Inventory numberNMH CC 2469

AcqusitionDonated 1941 by Eric Langenskiöld. Formerly in the Cronstedt collection, Fullerö

Other titlesTitle (sv): Entablement och kolonner av korintisk, komposita- och dorisk ordning Title (en): (a) Corinthian colonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (left); (b) Composite colonnade on pedestals, alternative elevation (centre); (c) details of the elevation of the entablature, capital and base of a Corinthian, Composite and Doric order (right) Previous: Entablatures and Columns of Corinthian, Composite and Doric Orders

DescriptionCatalogue raisonné: Bortolozzi, Italian Architectural Drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2020 (cat. no. 42) Anon. copyist after Giovanni Battista Montano, last quarter of the 16th century Pen, brown and black ink over black chalk, light brown and brown wash, straightedge, compass and freehand, 29.7/29.5 × 44.7/44.5 cm NM H CC 2469 PAPER: light weight, folded in the middle, minor holes WATERMARK: none visible INSCRIPTIONS: IL QUALLE. EBE. ORIGINA. E. INVENCIONE DI ROMANE / CORNICE E. FRIGIO E ARCHIRTAV. COMPOSITA (at upper right); CORNICE. CONPOSITA / CORNICE E FR[E]CIO E ARCHITRAV E CAPITELO E B[A]SSA (at centre right); CORNICE. DORICHA. E ARCHITRAVE. E FRIEGIO (at lower right); numbers MEASUREMENTS: none; no scale PROVENANCE: Carl Johan Cronstedt and descendants; Eric Langenskiöld; gift to the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm 1941 BIBLIOGRAPHY: unpublished The drawing appears to be a copy after a series of studies of the five orders by Giovanni Battista Montano (Milan c. 1534–Rome 1621). Montano proportioned the orders using a modular system and his drawings provided a simple method for the design of the orders as columns or pilasters, with or without pedestal, as arcades or as trabeated bays. Large numbers of independent sets of drawings and multiple copies of single drawings after Montano have survived in public and private collections (see Fairbairn 1998, II, 541–554). Linda Fairbairn suggests that the drawings had been available for sale during Montano’s lifetime either as sets of drawings with frontispieces or as single sheets. LITERATURE: For a complete bibliography see Fairbairn 1998, II, 770–771 OTHER DRAWINGS: (a) London, SJSM, vol. 125, fols. 70r, 72r. Prints: De Rossi 1684, I, 21. (b) London, SJSM, vol. 125, fols. 73r, 74r; Milan, Castello Sforzesco, Raccolta Martinelli, vols. V–VI, nos. 114, 119. (c) Prints: De Rossi 1684, I, 25, 32 [end]

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