Two Women Sitting on a Terrace with Bowls in their Laps
Artist/Maker
Material / Technique
Dimensionsh x w: Mått 19,6 x 28,8 cm
Inventory numberNMH 1466/1863
AcqusitionTransferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum (Carl Gustaf Tessin)
Other titlesTitel (sv): Två kvinnor med skålar i knät sitter på en terrass Titel (en): Two Women Sitting on a Terrace with Bowls in their Laps Titel (en): A Group of Women Doing Household Work Titel i inventariet (sv): Kvinnor rensa frukter
DescriptionDescription: Two Women Sitting on a Terrace with Bowls in their Laps. Inscribed at upper right in pen and brown ink: toutian; at lower centre: André Vicentino. Numbered at lower right: 1282. (Sparre) and 9 (struck out). Listed by *Tessin under "du Moro", probably referring to Marco Angelo del Moro, while Sirén preferred the older attribution to Andrea Vicentino. Tietze writes that he is not sufficiently familiar with the artists in the circle of Veronese, particularly those with a popular character, to venture an attribution. The motif calls to mind Giacomo Franco's engravings in Habiti d'huomeni et donne venetiane, Venice 1610. There are several drawings that correspond to the Franco etchings in reverse and which have been attributed alternately to Franco and to Palma Giovane, who is known to have collaborated with Franco. the most recent opinion comes from J.Byam Shaw, who seems to prefer Palma Giovane. In 1974 our sheet was attributed tentatively to Franco on the grounds of an iconographic correspondence with his work. But there does not seem to be sufficient evidence from which to compile a drawn oeuvre by Giacomo Franco and as our sheet does not fit stylistically with the work of Palma Giovane, the artist must be sought elsewhere. Pietro Liberi is a conceivable alternative. In an allegory of music he has done a group of figures in a similar technique with forceful lines and hatching. There are also clear resemblances between the female faces in the two drawings. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 135] Dirck de Vries (?) Active in Venice 1590 – 1609 A Group of Women Doing Household Work Attributed by Per Bjurström to Pietro Liberi (1614–1687), and published in his catalogue of North Italian drawings. An earlier attribution is to Andrea Vicentino. However, in 1961 this drawing was published by Bert Meijer as Dirck de Vries. The comparison with a signed drawing by that artist in an Amsterdam collection is not convincing. On the other hand, a drawing in the Louvre is without doubt by the same hand as ours. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings]
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Geographical origin
TechniqueWash drawing, Drawing