FJK 088
Orsi Lelio (Lelio da Novellara) (1511-1587)
Mythological Scene (The Myth of Prometheus)
ca. 1560
12 1/64 × 9 1/64 in. (305 × 229 mm)
Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown ink wash with white highlights on paper
Numbered in brown ink on the reverse: XXXIV
Origin
D. H. Cevat Collection, London
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (Acc. no. G 59.22.1), Gift of D. H. Cevat in memory of W. R. Valentiner
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, January 27, 1999, no. 62
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5678
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
“Gifts presented to North Carolina Museum of Art in Memory of M. R.Valentiner,” in Bulletin of the North Carlina Museum of Arts, 3, 1959, p. 48, ill.
VESTAL BROWN C., A Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolors, Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, exh. cat., summer 1969, p. 51, no. 93, ill., cat. entry by F. Frisoni.
De GRAZIA Diane, Correggio and His Legacy. Sixteenth Century Emilian Drawings, Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1984, mentioned under no. 87, p. 262, 264, note 3.
De GRAZIA Diane, Corregio e il suo lascito. Disegni del Cinquecento emiliano, Parma, 1984, p. 280.
ROMANI Vittoria, Lelio Orsi, Modena, 1984, pp. 51-52, fig. 29.
DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 413, ill.
Exhibitions
Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli, Lelio Orsi, catalogue by Elio Monducci and Massimo Pirondini, 1987-1988, p. 150, no. 138, ill.
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 72, no. 29, color ill. p. 73.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 90, no. 30, color ill. p. 91.
Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 88, no. 32, color ill. p. 89.
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 90, no. 37, color ill. p. 91.
Notes
Venturi believed the Flight into Egypt to be Lelio Orsi’s masterpiece. This drawing shares elements with other sheets made after Orsi’s Roman trip of 1554-1555. Similarly conceived lanscape backgrounds are found in two other drawings: The Flaying of Marsyas in Besançon and the Prometheus in Raleigh. Michelangelesque figures, which were not conceivable before Orsi’s direct knowledge of Michelangelo’s work, occur in each of these three drawings.
De Grazia Diane, p. 262, no. 87
Request for information/loan
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