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Telemachus is Consoled by Termosiris, Priest of Apollo, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 2
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1808 – 1808
Materials: board, chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: italy
Artist: bartolomeo pinelli
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1781 – 1835

These twelve drawings depict scenes from the French novel The Adventures of Telemachus (Les aventures de Télémaque) by François Fénelon. First published in 1699, it was one of the most popular books of the 1700s and 1800s.
Telemachus is the son of Ulysses from Homer’s Odyssey, the first four books of which describe the hero’s search for his father. Fénelon invented further adventures for Telemachus, in which he undergoes many trials while accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, who is actually the goddess Minerva (the embodiment of wisdom) in human disguise. A scathing critique of autocratic government and a diatribe against war, the book denounces luxury and decadence and calls for the simplicity and equality Fénelon believed ancient Greece best exemplified.
Pinelli illustrated scenes from books 1–8 and one scene from book 18, and probably planned to illustrate more from the 24 books of the text. Throughout, he celebrates the heroic nude, displaying a deep knowledge of ancient Roman sculpture. His style, influenced by Jacques-Louis David and John Flaxman, is characterized by bold, almost cartoonish contours, monochromatic washes, and frieze-like arrangements of figures.
The Phoenician ship on which Telemachus and Mentor are bound for Greece is attacked by the Egyptian fleet. Telemachus and Mentor are taken prisoner and brought to Egypt, where they are separated. Telemachus is enslaved and forced to tend sheep in the desert. In his despair at being unable to escape his fate, he is comforted in the wilderness by Termosiris, a priest of Apollo, who inspires him with courage.
Visiting dress
Object type: visiting dress
Date: 1865 – 1875
Materials: silk
Culture: american
Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 490 – 470
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, left shoulder and arm; behind arm, a pick
Design for a Ceiling Decoration
Object type: drawing
Date: 1800 – 1900
Materials: pencil, watercolor
Artist: anonymous, italian, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1800 – 1900
Subjects: birds,men,women,putti,ceilings
Fotoreproductie van een tekening van een portret van een onbekende vrouw
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1850 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: the hague
Subjects: historical persons not known by name - bb - woman
Inscriptions: name: ‘W. F. VAN WINSEN’, inscription: ‘383. Flower of Dumblan.’, address: ‘BOEKHANDEL/ van/ L. J. Verhoeven/ Spuistraat No. 36/ 's Hage.’
A man standing in front of three monuments
Object type: print
Date: 1890 – 1910
Materials: metal
Techniques: engraving
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: monuments,men
S 8 No 87. Passer-typen
Object type: photograph
Date: 1900 – 1935
Materials: cardboard, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: malang
Artist: neville keasberry
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1866 – 1944
Inscriptions: signature: ‘Neville Keasberry, Malang (Java)’, inscription: ‘Stereoscopische Fotografie’
Bearded Man Looking Down to the Left
Object type: drawing
Date: 1760 – 1760
Materials: ink
Techniques: pen, wash
Artist: giovanni battista tiepolo
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1696 – 1770
Subjects: men
Abklatsch van de krijttekening op blad 5 verso
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1875 – 1934
Materials: paper
Techniques: printmaking
Location: paris
Artist: isaac israels
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1865 – 1934

Blad 6 recto uit schetsboek LI met 11 bladen.
Tweede intermezzo: helse wezens maken zich op om Circe te wreken
Object type: print
Date: 1617 – 1617
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: florence
Subjects: theatre, theatrical performance, devil(s) and demons, circe, hell represented as (ruined) city, (ruined) castle
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Op een toneel met brandende ruïnes en torens (een voorstelling van de hel) staat een grote duivel geflankeerd door twee kleinere op de voorgrond. Links en rechts achter hen demonen, op gesteld in twee rijen; her en der in de lucht, op het water en op de gebouwen op de achtergrond eveneens vele duivelse wezentjes. Onder de voorstelling een regel Italiaanse tekst. Deze prent is onderdeel van een serie van drie voorstellingen van intermezzi in het toneelstuk 'La Liberazione di Tirenno, e d'Arnea' van Andrea Salvadori, zoals dat uitgevoerd werd tijdens het carnavalsfeest te Florence in 1616.
Shampooer
Object type: photograph
Date: 1884 – 1884
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: massage ~ medical treatment, japan
Inscriptions: number: ‘No.528’
Obviously I resemble him!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 29, 1866
Object type: print
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Artist: honoré daumier
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1808 – 1879
Subjects: satire,sculpture,men
Portret van graaf Philipp von Oettingen op 55-jarige leeftijd
Object type: print
Date: 1621 – 1621
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: augsburg
Subjects: philipp von oettingen (graaf), historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Onder het portret zijn wapenschild met daaronder het portret een vierregelig vers.
Portret van Lotharius van Frankrijk
Object type: print
Date: 1610 – 1668
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: paris
Subjects: historical persons, king
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Orphrey
Object type: religious ritual object
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: textile, silk
Techniques: weave
Location: spain
Subjects: medallions, pineapples, flowers
Nachtstuk met twee figuren in een hut
Object type: print
Date: 1761 – 1761
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: antwerp
Subjects: warming oneself at a fire (or hearth, stove, fire-pan, brazier)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Landschap met links een hut met openstaande deur waardoor men een vrouw en een man bij het vuur ziet zitten.
Fotoreproductie van een schilderij van de berg Rigi
Object type: reproduction
Date: 1863 – 1873
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Subjects: mountains
Inscriptions: number: ‘2.’
The Peace of Münster
Object type: medal
Date: 1648 – 1648
Materials: gold
Techniques: striking
Location: munster
Subjects: vrede van münster

Together two crowned lions pull a chariot of victory. The lion with a sceptre represents Spain; the other one, with a sheaf of arrows, the Dutch Republic. Destroyed weapons lie scattered on the ground under the chariot and the animals. This is an interpretation of the peace concluded between the two countries in Münster in 1648. The Spanish negotiator, Peñaranda, had this medal struck to celebrate this successful outcome.
De vier elementen
Object type: print
Date: 1586 – 1586
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: haarlem
Artist: hendrick goltzius
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1558 – 1617
Subjects: air (one of the four elements)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Man, staande op wolken, een kameleon op de rechterhand, een vogel op de linkerhand. Op de achtergrond de uitstorting van de Heilige Geest over de apostelen. Onder de voorstelling twee regels Latijn. Deze prent is onderdeel van een serie van de vier elementen.
Vase
Object type: vase
Date: 1501 – 1600
Materials: iron
Culture: japanese
Artist: takakazu
Artist role: artist
Christ before Pilate: large plate
Object type: print
Date: 1635 – 1635
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: rembrandt van rijn
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1606 – 1669
Subjects: christ before pontius pilate (matthew 27:11-26; mark 15:2-15; luke 23:2-7, 23:13-25; john 18:28 - 19:16)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
The New Boy, from "Illustrated London News"
Object type: print
Techniques: engraving
Artist: george smith
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1829 – 1901
Subjects: boys,girls,women,reading,teachers

A well-dressed boy is teased in a schoolroom by his new classmates while his mother talks to the master in an adjacent room and a sister peeks around the door to watch the scene. The wood engraving was published in the "Illustrated London News" in August 1859 and the related text notes that George Smith exhibited the related painting at the Royal Academy that summer. Following in the footsteps and David Wilkie and William Mulready, Smith worked in a genre tradition that focused on families and children in everyday circumstances.
Portret van George Lodewijk van Hessen-Darmstadt
Object type: print
Date: 1705 – 1705
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: armour, knighthood order of the golden fleece, wig
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

George Lodewijk, graaf van Hessen-Darmstadt, met om de hals een keten waaraan het ordeteken van de Orde van het Gulden Vlies.
Beeld van een centaur in de Capitolijnse Musea te Rome
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: capitolijnse musea
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: centaurs, sculpture
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘KUNSTNIJVERHEIDSCHOOL <BR />QUELLINUS<BR />AMSTERDAM<BR />FRANS HALSSTRAAT 14.’, inscription: ‘CWN.’, collector's mark: ‘INSTITUUT VOOR KUNST-<BR />NIJVERHEIDSONDERWIJS<BR />GABRIËL METSUSTRAAT No. 16.<BR />AMSTERDAM’, inscription: ‘Grieksche Kunst. <BR />Centaur. Beeldhouwwerk uit het Kapitoolsch museum te Rome.’
Bag
Object type: bag
Date: 1870 – 1880
Materials: leather, metal, silk
Culture: austrian
Back View of Standing Male Nude
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Date: 1873 – 1877
Materials: graphite, paper
Location: england
Artist: sir edward burne-jones
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1833 – 1898
Tobacco set
Object type: tobacco set
Date: 1701 – 1900
Materials: ivory, leather, silver
Culture: japanese
Jesus valt voor de eerste maal onder het kruis
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1929 – 1929
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: rotogravure
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: stations of the cross, interior of church
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘AFE v S’
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: linen, metal thread, silk
Subjects: animals,trees
Bowl
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1732 – 1732
Materials: ceramic, enamel, hard paste porcelain, porcelain
Techniques: gilding, polychrome
Location: meissen
Artist: meissen porcelain manufactory
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1710 –
Tours. Nouvel Hotel de Ville
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1925
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: tours
Het ontbijt van vader kadet
Object type: popular print
Date: 1902 – 1902
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing, lithograph
Location: epinal
Artist: camouche
Artist role: print maker
Subjects: bad behaviour, theft, miser
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 11 voorstellingen over de gierigaard vader Kadet die eten steelt. Onder elke afbeelding een onderschrift. Genummerd rechtsboven: No 119.
Panel
Object type: panel
Date: 1701 – 1800
Materials: wood
Techniques: carving, gilding
Subjects: roses
Terracotta fragment of a kylix? (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 500 – 401
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Fragment of a kylix foot?; on the underside, there is a graffito
Vriendengroep tijdens een vaartocht
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1913 – 1914
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, friends

Deze foto's zijn onderdeel van een album.
It Always Happens, plate eight from The Disasters of War
Object type: print
Materials: gilt, paper
Techniques: drypoint, etching
Location: spain
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: war
Vetter-Prikkebeen in Atjeh
Object type: print
Date: 1896 – 1896
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: amsterdam
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: the hague, historical persons, hunting butterflies, political caricatures and satires
Inscriptions: date

Spotprent op de strijd van generaal Vetter tegen de opstand in Atjeh in 1896, het zogenaamde Verraad van Teukoe Oemar. Generaal Vetter als de vlinderjager Prikkebeen die met een vlindernet een grote wesp met de naam van Oemar (Teukoe Oemar, leider van de opstand) probeert te vangen.
Bezoekers van de tuinen van het Hof van Thurn en Tassis in Brussel, 1686
Object type: print
Date: 1686 – 1687
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: haarlem
Artist: romeyn de hooghe
Artist role: draughtsman, goldsmith, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1645 – 1708
Subjects: leopold i (keizer van duitsland), park, garden, brussels

Bezoekers van de tuinen van het Hof van Thurn en Tassis in Brussel. Op de voorgrond lopen bedienden met schalen met eten.
Vier foto's van de familie Van den Berg in het bos
Object type: photograph
Date: 1914 – 1914
Materials: paper
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrik herman van den berg
Artist role: amateurfotograaf, jurist
Artist dates: 1875 – 1944
Subjects: batavia, hendrik herman van den berg, carel frederik van den berg (cay), amsterdam, frank willem van den berg (1912-1998), forest, wood, father and child(ren), man and child(ren) (family group), netherlands

Deze foto's maken deel uit van een album.
Strooippenning op de inhuldiging van stadhouder Willem IV als markgraaf van Veere op 1 juni 1751
Object type: penningverklaring
Date: 1751 – 1751
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, letterpress printing
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: caspar jacobsz. philips
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1732 – 1789
Subjects: willem iv (prins van oranje-nassau), medal (considered as a piece of sculpture, regardless of its specific function)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Uitgeknipt blad met de strooipenning of gedenkpenning op de inhuldiging van stadhouder Willem IV als markgraaf van Veere op 1 juni 1751. Onderdeel van de illustraties van de feestelijke inhuldiging van stadhouder Willem IV als markgraaf van Veere op 1 juni 1751. Tekst met plaat van voor- en keerzijde van de penning.
Fotoreproductie van een familieportret van een koninklijke familie
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1855 – 1865
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: family of the sovereign, anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Famille Impériale/ Photographiée d'apres nature à Fontainbleau’
Perspectiefoefening met een kubus
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1813 – 1813
Materials: paper, pencil
Artist: jonkvrouw catharina kemper
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1801 – 1871
Subjects: hexahedron, cube, mathematical perspective

Blad 28 recto uit een schetsboek met 91 bladen.
Certificate of Bible Society
Object type: print
Date: 1801 – 1900
Techniques: printmaking, engraving
Artist: asher brown durand
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1796 – 1886
Subjects: books,men,women,crowd,printing press
Riviergezicht met figuren bij een bron
Object type: print
Date: 1693 – 1756
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: pieter langendijk (i)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1683 – 1756
Subjects: river bank - hh - ideal landscapes, utilitarian, public pump or water fountain
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Riviergezicht met rechts op de voorgrond figuren bij een bron.
Achttien gezichten in en om Den Haag (Besoet / Scheurleer)
Object type: print
Date: 1755 – 1755
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: the hague
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, dam (in canal), armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 195

Gezicht op de Leidse Dam te Leidschendam, gelegen aan de Vliet tussen Leiden en Delft, gezien vanuit de richting van Leiden. Onder de voorstelling de titel en opdracht in het Nederlands en Frans, met in het midden het familiewapen van de Leidse burgemeester Pieter Gijs. Prent uit een serie van achttien gezichten in en om Den Haag.
Bob Leyton, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1890
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: kinney brothers tobacco company
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1869 – 2011
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N245), issued in 1890 by Kinney Brothers Tobacco to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes.
Lobed Dish
Object type: vessel
Materials: glaze, stoneware
Location: china
Poem
Object type: folding fan mounted a an album leaf
Date: 1574 – 1644
Materials: ink, mica, paper
Culture: chinese
Artist: zou zhilin
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Artist dates: 1574 – 1664
Subjects: poetry,calligraphy
Kleine pimpernel (Sanguisorba minor) en grote leeuwenbek (Antirrhinum majus)
Object type: print
Date: 1604 – 1632
Materials: ink, paper, watercolor
Techniques: engraving, hand coloring
Location: cologne
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: flowers: snapdragon, plants and herbs: burnet

Kleine pimpernel en grote leeuwenbek. Figs. 13 en 14 op een blad met de hand genummerd 8. In: Anselmi Boëtii de Boot I.C. Brugensis & Rodolphi II. Imp. Roman. medici a cubiculis Florum, Herbarum, ac fructuum selectiorum icones, & vires pleraeque hactenus ignotæ. Onderdeel van het album met bladen en platen uit De Boodts herbarium van 1640. Het twaalfde van twaalf albums met aquarellen van dieren, vogels en planten bekend rond 1600, gemaakt in opdracht van keizer Rudolf II.
Plate 65 from "Los Caprichos": Where is mom going? (Donde vá mamá?)
Object type: print
Date: 1799 – 1799
Techniques: aquatint, drypoint, etching
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: female nudes,cats
Riders in the Snow in the Haagse Bos
Object type: drawing
Date: 1880 – 1880
Materials: paint, paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: anton mauve
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1888
Subjects: riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman, forest, wood, snow

As in his painting of the Morning Ride on the Beach (Gallery 1.18), Mauve shows the riders from behind. They are trotting away from the viewer in that silent wood. In the watercolour, the bare branches contrast sharply with the misty background, lit by an almost imperceptible winter sun. The whole scene seems to convey a sense of tranquillity and serenity.
David en Batseba: het negende Gebod
Object type: print
Date: 1585 – 1589
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: nathan accuses david of his misdeed, david and bathsheba as lovers, 'you shall not covet' ~ separate representation of the tenth of the ten commandments
Inscriptions: number: ‘35’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Koning David heeft een relatie met Batseba, de vrouw van Uria (2 Samuël 11:1-26). In de achtergrond vertelt de profeet Natan aan David dat hij door God zal gestraft worden omdat hij in schending is van het negende Gebod: "Gij zult de vrouw van uw medemens niet begeren". De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift. De prentserie beeldt de Tien Geboden uit door middel van scènes van het Oude Testament.
Rots van de Loreley aan de Rijn
Object type: photograph
Date: 1883 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: loreley
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: river, rock-formations
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘23 Dinsdag 28 Juli/ Lorlei/ 23’

Deze foto maakt deel uit van een fotoserie, gemaakt of gekocht door een Nederlandse reiziger die onderweg was in Duitsland, Oostenrijk en Italië tussen 27 juni en 29 juli. Het jaartal van de reis is onbekend, maar de foto's zijn waarschijnlijk gemaakt tussen 1883 en 1900.
Watermolen van Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
Object type: print
Date: 1854 – 1883
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, intaglio
Artist: aristide de biseau
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1844 – 1883
Subjects: watermill in landscape
Inscriptions: annotation: ‘1er Etat 1ere Epreuve’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Figurine
Object type: sculpture
Date: 800 – 601
Materials: ivory
Culture: iranian
Location: iran
Uitrustingsbassin
Object type: print
Date: 1916 – 1917
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: england
Artist: muirhead bone
Artist role: artist, print maker
Artist dates: 1876 – 1953
Subjects: ships (in general), harbour equipment, building-site
Inscriptions: watermark

Deze prent behoort tot de reeks 'Building Ships' binnen de serie 'The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals'.
Portret van Pieter Magito
Object type: print
Date: 1790 – 1790
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching, sugar lift
Location: leeuwarden
Artist: rienk jelgerhuis
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1729 – 1806
Subjects: wooden shoes, clogs, drum (musical instrument)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Portret van de koorddanser Pieter Magito, met trommel, klompen en schaatsen. In het kader onder zijn portret zijn naam en beroep en een zesregelig gedicht in het Nederlands.
The Lady Alexandra Duff
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1883 – 1893
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Location: london
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: ruler, sovereign - bb - female ruler, mother and baby or young child
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘57 & 61, Elbury Street, London.’
Nieuwjaarswens voor 1969 van Ellen en Peter Mookhoek
Object type: new year card
Date: 1968 – 1968
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: photography
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: river bank
The Virgin and Child with Saint Martina, Another Study of Saint Martina, Studies of a Head, and of an Arcade (recto); Figure Studies (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1596 – 1669
Materials: chalk, ink
Techniques: pen
Artist: pietro da cortona (pietro berrettini)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1596 – 1669
Subjects: madonna and child,saints

The Roman martyr Saint Martina, kneeling before the Virgin and about to receive a flower from the Christ Child, was a subject frequently painted by Cortona. It was in the course of excavations for the crypt of the church of the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome that the body of Saint Martina was discovered. At the time, Cortona was the architect of the church built on that site between 1635 and 1650 (which was eventually dedicated to both Luke and Martina), and the architectural sketches at the top of the sheet may be related to the artist's plans for the church. Cortona was particularly devoted to the cult of the Roman martyr Saint Martina - a third-century martyr who was put to death for refusing to worship idols – and the subject of another drawing in the Museum’s collection (inv. 1979.3). Citing the Metropolitan's drawing as one of the earliest images of Saint Martina, Jörg Martin Merz notes a sketch of Minerva in mirror-image visible on the verso, which may be linked to the ceiling fresco painted by Cortona in the main hall (Salone) of Palazzo Barberini in Rome. The sheet may therefore be dated to the 1630s, around the same time that the relics where discovered, and may be a study in reverse for Cortona's painting of ‘The Virgin and Child and Saint Martina’ (Musee du Louvre, Paris, inv. 108). Once attributed to Giulio Romano, then to the circle of Correggio, the drawing was recognized in 1958 as a work of Pietro da Cortona by the late Philip Pouncey.
Bowl with two bail handles
Object type: bowl
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: brass