Study of a Dancing Satyr

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Title	Study of a Dancing Satyr
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 399 mm Width 273 mm
Artists	Draughtsman: Annibale Carracci
Accession number	I 184 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1595-1605
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Provenance	Edward Habich (1818-1901, L.862), Boston/Cassel; possibly his sale, Stuttgart (Gutekunst) 27-29.04.1899, in lot 180; Emile Wauters (1846-1933, L.911), Paris; his sale, Amsterdam (Muller) 15-16.06.1926, lot 38 (Fl 200 to Cassirer); Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1926; D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions	Sydney 1999, no. 40; Rotterdam 2009-2010 (coll 2 kw 5)
Internal exhibitions	De Collectie Twee - wissel V, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Martin 1965, p. 211, n. 47; Bologna 1956, p. 119, no. 161; Sydney 1999, no. 40
Material	Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Blue paper > Coloured paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Surya Stemerding

Annibale Carracci, 'Pan and Diana', 1595-1605, fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Photo Web Gallery of Art

Mahon (1956) regarded this impressive drawing as a possible alternative preliminary study for the figure of Pan in the fresco Pan and Diana (fig.) in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. The fresco decorations were made between 1595 and 1605 by Annibale Carracci, working with his older brother Agostino (1557-1602), and a great many preliminary studies for parts of them have survived.^[1]

There are three known preliminary studies for Pan and Diana by Annibale: two figure studies for the satyr Pan that are in Paris and Windsor, and a composition sketch in landscape format at Chatsworth.^[2] The satyr’s pose in those three drawings is not the same as in this one, and there is also another difference. Here the satyr appears to be grasping branches with leaves, possibly vines, with his right hand, whereas it seems to be a cloth in the preliminary studies in Paris and Chatsworth, as is also the case for the fresco in Rome. When we compare the drawing with the other figure study for a satyr in Rotterdam, it is striking that the figure’s goat’s legs have now been drawn in.^[3]

This study of a satyr does not appear to have belonged to the same group as the four preliminary studies for satyrs in the fresco decorations of the Palazzo Farnese discussed above. Those studies remained together as one group, with the exception of the Rotterdam sheet, which was split off in the 1776 sale of P.J. Mariette’s collection.

Footnotes

^[1]Ginzburg 2008, p. 9; Robertson 2008, pp. 142-77; Cajano/Settimi/Buranelli 2016, pp. 55-72.

^[2]Musée du Louvre, inv. 7190 (Loisel 2002, no. 525, ill.); Royal Collection, inv. 901858; Devonshire Collections, inv. 414.

^[3] Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, inv. I 183.

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