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Record drawings of two small rectangular panels and two urns. The panel at the top has two winged figures pulling a lion's mane with scrolling foliage on either side; the panel below this has a winged putto pouring liquid onto the raised paw of a winged lion. Below this, on the left is a covered vase with lion handles, on the right an open vase with swag decoration.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/84
Purpose
Record drawings of two small rectangular panels and two urns. The panel at the top has two winged figures pulling a lion's mane with scrolling foliage on either side; the panel below this has a winged putto pouring liquid onto the raised paw of a winged lion. Below this, on the left is a covered vase with lion handles, on the right an open vase with swag decoration.
Aspect
Elevations, details
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Black chalk
436 x 312
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Watermark
coat of arms [part]
Notes
There is a version of the top relief panel by a similar hand in Sir John Soane's Museum (see SM 129/84). The lower of the two relief panels is a version of the frieze from Trajan's Forum, Rome shown in Adam vol.26/53, which was illustrated by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) as in the Aldobrandini gardens (see G. B. Piranesi, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi, etc., Rome, 1778, pl.62).
The two vases, and the two in Adam vol.26/85, are possibly copies of similar ones in Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820)'s Portfolio C, now in the Hermitage, which contained 'une collection considérable de vases et de candelabres, dont la plus grande partie sont dessinés d'après l'antique' ('a considerable collection of vases and candelabras, of which the largest part were drawn after the antique'); of these, 219 were vases (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, p.92). The covered vase is probably a cinerary urn (see Adam vol.26/85); there is a print of it by Piranesi in Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi, etc., noted as a 'Vasi Cinerario di marmo' from the the Villa Casali near San Stefano Rotondo. There is a set of vase compositions attributed to Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) of c.1766 in Adam vol.19/90-97. In Adam volume 52 there is also a pen drawing of a frieze of putti and vases in relief, on which is noted in a contemporary hand 'Fregio dal vaso in Grande trovato in una vigna 3 miglia fuori di Roma nel anno 1764'. (see Adam vol.52/132). It is probably a copy of similar drawings to those shown here.
The two vases, and the two in Adam vol.26/85, are possibly copies of similar ones in Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820)'s Portfolio C, now in the Hermitage, which contained 'une collection considérable de vases et de candelabres, dont la plus grande partie sont dessinés d'après l'antique' ('a considerable collection of vases and candelabras, of which the largest part were drawn after the antique'); of these, 219 were vases (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, p.92). The covered vase is probably a cinerary urn (see Adam vol.26/85); there is a print of it by Piranesi in Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi, etc., noted as a 'Vasi Cinerario di marmo' from the the Villa Casali near San Stefano Rotondo. There is a set of vase compositions attributed to Giuseppe Manocchi (1731-82) of c.1766 in Adam vol.19/90-97. In Adam volume 52 there is also a pen drawing of a frieze of putti and vases in relief, on which is noted in a contemporary hand 'Fregio dal vaso in Grande trovato in una vigna 3 miglia fuori di Roma nel anno 1764'. (see Adam vol.52/132). It is probably a copy of similar drawings to those shown here.
Level
Drawing
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