Black-and-white print of woman sitting on man’s shoulders in the woods.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A woman, nude from the waist up and holding a bow and arrow, sits on a man’s shoulders. She looks down, and her right hand wraps around his neck. The man wears a one-shoulder tunic made of fur and holds a tall embellished spear. Collared hunting dogs stand around the man. Behind the figures on the left is a tree wrapped in ivy. On the right behind them is a group of more women with bows and arrows. A tall tree stands behind them.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.7
People
Giorgio Ghisi, Italian (Mantua 1520 - 1582 Mantua)
After Luca Penni, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1500 - c. 1557 Paris, France)
Title
Allegory of the Hunt
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1556
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354297

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 36.6 × 25.3 cm (14 7/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: LVCA / PENNIS / .R. / INVEN. / GEORGIVS / GHISI MNT.Æ / M. D. L. V. I.
  • inscription: lower left, in plate: IN SYLVIS HABITANS AB AMORIS CARCERE LIBER / CREDIDERAM DEMENS VIVERE POSSE DIV.
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: SED DEVS ILLE POTENS HOMINV CONFVDERE MENĒ / HANC VT AMEM NOLENS, VVLT HVMFRISO FERĀ
  • inscription: verso, lower left, in graphite: R - 9113 C
  • inscription: verso, lower center, in graphite: D43
  • label: verso, top right, graphite: 17
  • inscription: lower right, in plate: Romæ Claudij Duchetti formis
  • watermark: shield with a star on top; a fleur-de-lys and two crossed keys inside [similar to Woodward 115, 116, 117, and 118; Heawood 2824]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
James Edward Walsh (1918-2004). Roger Stoddard, Lincoln, MA, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iv
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch 43; Bellini 27

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Roger Stoddard
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.7
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Suzanne Boorsch, R. E. Lewis, and Michal Lewis, The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1985), pp. 91-94, cat. no. 91 [not Harvard impression]

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