The Goddess Roma, the Wolf of Rome with the Infants Romulus and Remus, Victories and Putti

between 1538 and 1547

Perino del Vaga Italian, 1501-1547

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About the Artwork

Title The Goddess Roma, the Wolf of Rome with the Infants Romulus and Remus, Victories and Putti

Artwork Date between 1538 and 1547

Artist Perino del Vaga

Life Dates 1501-1547

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on discolored off white-paper

Dimensions Sheet: 11 1/4 × 12 13/16 inches (28.6 × 32.5 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund, and Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 66.398

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, lower right: Baglione Inscribed, on paper strip, attached to mount, lower right corner: From the Collection of Charles Rogers Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, verso, upper center: 110 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower center: C. Rogers Inscribed, on attached printed clipping, on mount, verso, lower cenbter: Charles Rogers F.R.S. 4 [circled] S.A.L., Editor of "Imitatons | of Drawings by Old Masters," eminent collector. Born in | London, 1711, died 1784 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, below and to the right of clipping: Dr. Barry Delaney | Pulteney [?] Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mount, verso, lower center: B.D- Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower right corner: D640-I Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower left corner: Cavaliere Giovanni Baglioni | Flourished at Rome | from 1572 to 1642 Inscribed, in pencil, on mount, verso, lower left corner: PHETTR

Provenance

John Barnard (London, England);
Charles Rogers (London, England) (Lugt 624);
April 15, 1799, sold by T. Philipe (London, England);
Sir James Murray Pulteney;
June 1811, sold by (Christie's, London, England);
Dr. Barry Delaney (Kilkenny, Ireland) (Lugt 350);
June 5, 1872, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England);
1966, H. Shickman Gallery (New York, New York, USA);
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art in Italy. Exh. cat., Miami Art Center. Miami, 1969, no. 28.

Exhibition of Old Master Drawings at the H. Schickman Gallery. Exh. cat., H. Schickman Gallery. New York, 1966, no. 5 (pl. 5.).

Marabottini, A. Polidoro da Caravaggio. Rome, 1969, (pl. CXLIV) (fig. 1).

Ravelli, L. Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio. Milan, 1978 (fig. 611).

Wolk, Linda. "A Drawing by Perino del Vaga in the Detroit Institute of Arts: Its Significance and Position in Perino's Oeuvre." M.A. thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1981, pp. 12-17.

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 315, cat. 254 (ill.).

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Perino del Vaga, The Goddess Roma, the Wolf of Rome with the Infants Romulus and Remus, Victories and Putti, between 1538 and 1547, pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on discolored off white-paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund, and Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, 66.398.