Study for the Allegorical Portrait of Giovanni Priuli
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Dimensionsh x w: Mått 30 x 29,8 cm
Inventory numberNMH 91/1977
AcqusitionPurchase 1977
Other titlesTitle (sv): Studie för ett allegoriskt porträtt av Giovanni Priuli Title (en): Study for the Allegorical Portrait of Giovanni Priuli
DescriptionDescription: Central horisontal fold, where the paper has parted. A hole c. 1 cm² in the middle of the lower half of the sheet. No watermark. Dated on the book held by the woman on the left of the Rettore: "1627". Inscribed in brown ink on the backing: "del Maganza-Vicentino". Provenance: Unknown collector´s mark, fragmentary, verso in the lower left corner (close to Lugt 2703) ; C.R. Rudolph ; Acquired at Sotheby´s, 4 July 1977, lot 42 A preparatory study for the lost allegorical painting of Rettore Giovanni Priuli, which hung with other paintings of Rettori in the Podestà Palace of Vicenza. This is the only painting certainly by Giambattista Maganza the Younger´s son, Vincenzo, so that this drawing is on central importance for assessing Vincenzo as a graphic artist. Stefania Mason Rinaldi has, however, identified yet another preparatory drawing, also for Podestà Palace, "The allegory of Podestà Pietro Basadone", by the same hand. Boschini described the painting as the work of "Maganzi" and dated 1629. Before it was destroyed, the Priuli portrait was described by Marco Boschini: "sequo l´altro, con il Ritratto di Giovanni Priuli, con Marte che gli pone una ghirlanda in capo, la Città di Vicenza, che gli mostra il suo statuto & il Rettore vi pon sopra la mano col giuramento. Di puì la giustizia, la Pace, l´Imperio, & il Consolato & in aria alcune Deità con tre Duci, & la Fama, con il Ritratto d´un Figliuolino del Rettore, e la Prudenza in la porta, e sopra della quale si vede l´Arma della Città: opera di Vincenzo Maganza del 1627. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 81]
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TechniqueDrawing, Wash drawing
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