Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria

Belisario Corenzio1630

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Turkish Ambassadors kneeling before Don Juan of Austria (seated on throne) to present him with a large metal plate. Verso: Faint red chalk sketch of a standing figure.Verso: faint red chalk sketch of a standing figure, seen from right, back.

Details

Title: Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria
Creator: Belisario Corenzio
Creator Lifespan: 1590/1646
Date Created: 1630
Type: Drawing
Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash, red chalk on cream laid paper
Signed: Bottom, off-center:Belisario Fecit
Provenance: Giovanni Piancastelli
Inscribed: Signed, lower bottom, center: Belisario fecit
Exhibitions: Sarasota, Fl., The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. "Baroque Painters of Naples," Mar.4- Apr.4,1961, no.48, repro. New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies: Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," 1970.
Dimensions: 22.2 x 33.5 cm (8 3/4 x 13 3/16 in.)
Bibliography: Elaine Evans Dee, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," exhibition catalog (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) p. 4, no. 1 (illus.).Louvre, "le dessin a Naples du XIV siecle au XVIIIe siecle," (Paris: Louvre, 1967), p. 6. Uffizi, "Centro disegni napoletani, sec. XVI-XVIII," (Florence: Uffizi, 1967), p. 16.Walter Vitzhum, "Neapolitan Drawings in Florida," Burlington Magazine, vol. 103 (July 1961), p. 313.

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