ANONYMOUS
Prints & Drawings by Anonymous Artists
Prints & Drawings by Anonymous Artists
- Italian 15th Century, The Man of Sorrows
- Florentine ca. 1470, Music Manuscript
- Greek or Byzantine 15th-16th Century, The Risen Christ
- French ca. 1500, The Mass of St. Gregory
- Italian 16th Century, Annunciation to the Virgin
- Itallian 16th Century, Study for a Draped Female Figure
- Dutch 16th Century, Christ Feeding the Five Thousand
- German 16th Century, Ornament with an Owl
- Italian 16th Century, The Virgin at the Cradle
- Italian 16th Century, The Forefathers of Christ
- Master L, Adoration of the Magi
- Master RR, Esther Before Ahasuerus
- Monogramist HWB, Sketches of Lovers
- Italian 16th Century, Gladiators in an Arena
- School of Fontainebleau, The Birth of the Virgin
- Flemish 16th Century, Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion
- Flemish (?) 16th-17th Century, Satyr and Nymph Embracing
- after Ludolph Büsinck, Saint Matthew
- Flemish 17th Century, Doctor, Dying Miser
- Bolognese 17th Century, Robed, Seated Male Figure
- French 17th Century, Le Palais de Neptune
- Italian 17th Century, Male Figure in the Clouds
- Italian 17th -18 th Century, Panel of Ornament with Putti
- Dutch (?) 18th Century, Landscape with a River
- British 18th Century, A Woman Seated in an Arm Chair
- Italian late 18th Century, Neptune Before Juno
- French (?) late 18th-Early 19th Century, Bathers in a Landscape
- Spanish (?) 19th Century (?), Vanitas
- British 19th Century, Extensive Landscape
- Barbizon School 19th Century, Pair of River Landscapes
- American Mid-19th Century, Maylandville Road
- Spanish 19th Century, Street Scene
- French 19th Century, En Auvergne
- French 19th Century, Cavalry Skirmish
- British 19th Century, Badshahi Qila
- French 19th Century, Design for a Ceiling
- Russian 19th Century, Fortified Military Encampment
- American late 19th Century, Sheep on a Country Road
- British 19th (?) Century, Llyn Ogwen, North Wales
- German or Austrian 19th-20th Century, Prometheus Bound
- British 20th (?) Century, The Knife Grinder
- British 20th Century, The Knife Grinder
- German 20th Century, Death Leading a Woman
- American 20th Century, Straphanger
Neptune Before Juno
Original drawing in red chalk on greenish laid paper with the watermark Sebast Pollora, 292 x 198 mm. A “Poleri” watermark is known from Palermo, late 18th century. This is a drawing of the Italian Neo-Classical movement, not the most explored territory of old master drawings. It includes some fairly well-known names – Felice Giani, Antonio Canova, Andrea Appiani, Vicenzo Camuccini, Luigi Sabatelli, for example – but a host of little known ones as well as artists who remain, for the moment at least, anonymous.
A major impetus of the movement was, of course, a look backward to ancient Greece and Rome, and a concomitant of that was a predilection for legend and mythological subjects. The encounter between Juno and Neptune here probably derives from Virgil’s Aeneid.
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