Man Carrying the Base of a Column

Prints and Drawings

1515/30

Agostino dei Musi (Italian, c. 1490-after 1536)
after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)

Agostino Veneziano was one of the chief assistants in the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, the premier engraver of Raphael’s drawings. Both artists engraved versions of Man Carrying the Base of a Column, which bear striking resemblances to each other; it is unclear which print came first. Raimondi reversed the compositions of his sources, and his rendition of this scene is a mirror image of the present work. Agostino Veneziano’s curious Man under a Laurel Tree (1920.2361) may also reproduce a Raphael drawing.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Agostino dei Musi
Title: Man Carrying the Base of a Column
Origin: Italy
Date: 1515–1530
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 227 × 140 mm (image/sheet, trimmed to platemark)
Credit Line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
Reference Number: 1920.2360
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Bartsch XIV.354.477

Passavant VI.62,1

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