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Pirro LIGORIO (Naples 1510-Ferrare 1583)
Two Princes of the …
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Pirro LIGORIO (Naples 1510-Ferrare 1583)
Two Princes of the …
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Pirro LIGORIO (Naples 1510-Ferrare 1583)
Two Princes of the d'Este Family: Philip II and John IV
Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black pencil lines
22 x 11.5 cm strips of paper added at the bottom
Annotated at the bottom "Ioannus Philippi filius/PhilippusII, Philippi Fil.Stiener gruber hayhenses/Fbÿt 1554/..? A.1560 "
Slightly faded
Provenance :
Former W.Bürgi collection, stamped lower right (L.3400)
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 2 July 1991, n°78, repr.
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 31 March 2000, no. 75, repr.
Our drawing is a preparatory study for two princes of the d'Este family who were represented among the two hundred ancestors of Duke Alfonso II d'Este in a fresco (no longer extant) that adorned the courtyard of the castle of Ferrara (see D.R. Coffin, "Pirro Ligorio and decoration of the late XVI century at Ferrara," the Art Bulletin, 1935, n°XXXVII, pp.167-185).
Pirro Ligorio was commissioned to design the figures based on the "Historia de principe d'Este" published by G. Pigna in 1570. A number of surviving drawings are known (24 in Oxford's Ashmoleum museum, 4 in the British museum, 4 in Munich and other isolated sheets), with the princes always represented in pairs.
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