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Girolamo Romanino
ca. 1520–30 · Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk. · Robert Lehman Collection
Romanino probably trained as a painter in his native Brescia but soon came under the influence of Venetian painting. The subject of this sketch, a group of ladies and a satyr playing music in a landscape, was inspired by works by Giorgione and Titian, the predominant Venetian painters of the early sixteenth century. In this sheet the artist tried more than one compositional idea, changing the satyr at far right from a standing to a seated position. The drawing has been connected to frescoes with similar themes that Romanino painted in the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent in 1531–32.
- Artist
- Girolamo Romanino
- Date
- ca. 1520–30
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk.
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
