The 50 plates / Plate 37 of 50
Plate 37 of 50
Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
Giulio Romano
Not yet located
The drawing
An elaborate allegorical composition featuring a procession of classical figures gathered around the punishment of Cupid. Three richly draped women stand at left, carrying flowers and ceremonial staffs, while a crowded group of figures surrounds a tree-like structure at center. Several figures kneel or bow in the foreground, and handwritten annotations appear throughout the drawing. The densely arranged figures and theatrical gestures reflect the influence of Raphael's Roman workshop.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Giulio Romano
- Title as printed
- Fries: Kreuzigung Amors
- Title in English
- Frieze: The Crucifixion of Cupid
- Medium and size
- Pen with gray-yellow wash, 26 × 35 cm (each of four sheets)
- Inscription
- Inscriptions naming the figures
- Collection in 1922
- Formerly Prof. A. Grahl, Dresden
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Giulio Romano, as attributed by Becker. The sheet contains several handwritten inscriptions identifying figures, but their authorship and significance have not been established. No independent modern attribution of this exact drawing has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 37.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.