Istituto di Storia dell'Arte / Atlante delle Xilografie italiane del Rinascimento

OGGETTO

definizione: stampa

SOGGETTO

identificazione: Sibilla che legge
titolo parallelo: Sybil reading

LOCALIZZAZIONE

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen, Europe, Prints and Drawings

ACQUISIZIONE NELLA RACCOLTA

tipo acquisizione: donazione
Boston, 1964

PROVENIENZA

data uscita: 1964

DATAZIONE

sec. XVI, primo quarto
1517 ca. - 1518 ca.

AUTORE

STATO DELLA STAMPA

secondo stato (di due) ?

DATI TECNICI

xilografia; chiaroscuro; mm 279 x 225 ca.,
materia del supporto: carta
filigrana: da rilevare

STATO DI CONSERVAZIONE

buono

MODALITÀ DI CONSERVAZIONE

RESTAURI

ISCRIZIONI

tipologia: indicazione di responsabilità
tecnica di scrittura: a stampa
tipo di caratteri: lettere capitali
posizione: in alto a destra
trascrizione: .R.
tipologia: documentaria
tecnica di scrittura: a penna
tipo di caratteri: corsivo e numeri arabi
posizione: a destra
trascrizione: P. Mariette 1666

STEMMI, MARCHI

NOTIZIE STORICO-CRITICHE

Chiaroscuro woodcut from 2 blocks, green/gray, possible state ii

Inscriptions: “R” and “R.V.I.” in the tone block



States: possibly two states. In second state, the letters “R. V. I.” may have been recut.



See comment in ALU.0941.1 from Naoko Takahatake, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June-September 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, October 2018-January 2019, DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York, 2018, pp.69-72.



Impressions of possible state i:



-Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC, FP-XVI-C298, no. 10 (A size) https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008678911/ ALU.0941.1

-Albertina 2002/301: light brown https://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/m/?query=search=/record/objectnumbersearch=[DG2002%2f301]&showtype=record

-Albertina 2002/302: blue/black https://www.graphikportal.org/document/gpo00080106

-Frankfurt 33931: blue/black, like Library of Congress (wmk: heartshaped crossbow?)

-BnF RESERVE EA 26 (I) BOITE FOL: blue/black, like Library of Congress

-Chatsworth vol IV. Fol. 41, no. 62: blue/black

-MMA 22.73.3-12: light brown/black (wmk: bull in profile) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/632829

-Achenbach 1963.30.702: light brown/black https://art.famsf.org/ugo-da-carpi/sibyl-child-holding-torch-after-chiaroscuro-woodcut-ugo-da-carpi-after-raphael-0

-MFA Boston 64.1076: blue/black https://collections.mfa.org/objects/167802/sibyl-reading

-MFA Boston 64.1075: brown/black https://collections.mfa.org/objects/167799/sibyl-reading

-Budapest 6151: red/black http://printsanddrawings.hu/search/prints/6151/

-Fitzwilliam light brown/black



Other impressions of possible state ii:



-Albertina 2002/303: green/black https://www.graphikportal.org/document/gpo00080102

-Harvard M9807: mint green/gray (wmk: heartshaped crossbow 50 mm) https://hvrd.art/o/253946

-BnF EA39 Res: mint green/gray (wmk: heartshaped crossbow)

-Escorial 28-1-19 fol. 106: yellow-ocher https://rbmecat.patrimonionacional.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=31872&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A%20ugo%20da%20carpi

-Windsor 850629: light brown/black https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/7/collection/850629

-Achenbach 1963.30.706: brown/black

-Stanford 1986.148: green http://cantorcollection.stanford.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20all%20%22ugo%20da%20carpi%22&page=2

-V&A Dyce.997:green http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1152921/print-carpi-ugo-da/

-PMA 1963-42-2 https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/227339.html

-Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-31.045: light brown/black



NB: there are several late impressions that show wear to the blocks (including wormholes and breaks)



Late impressions, with wormholes:



-Munich 6081: light blue, later (wmk: imperial orb)

-Budapest 6150: green/gray http://printsanddrawings.hu/search/prints/6150/

-BnF EA39 Res: oily brown/black (wmk: crown surmounted by a star in circle, early 17th Century?)

-MMA 2012.136.336: brown/black (wmk: crown surmounted by a star in circle) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397554

-Berlin: brown/black (wmk: crown surmounted by a star in circle)

-Berlin: brown/black (wmk: eagle in circle)

-MMA 22.73.3-11: brown/black https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/632830

-Harvard R1781: brown/black https://hvrd.art/o/242353

-MFA Boston P1688: oily brown/black (wmk: crown surmounted by a star in circle) https://collections.mfa.org/objects/109707/sibyl-reading

-Ashmolean WA1863.1697: brown/black https://collections.ashmolean.org/object/291902

-Harvard G7484: red-brown/black https://hvrd.art/o/273392

-Marucelliana III, 60: light brown/black

-Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-31.046: light brown/black

-Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-31.047: light brown/black (wmk: imperial orb)

-Blanton 1997.11: light blue/black http://collection.blantonmuseum.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20all%20%22ugo%20da%20carpi%22&page=2

-ETH D.9: brown/black https://doi.org/10.16903/ethz-grs-D_000009

-Baselitz Collection (Gnann 71): brown/black



Impressions of key-block only (with wormholes)



-Achenbach 1963.30.701

-MFA Boston 64.1078 https://collections.mfa.org/objects/167810/sibyl-reading



Impressions of uncertain state:



-Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, A 22591


DOCUMENTAZIONE FOTOGRAFICA

tipologia: fotografia digitale
ente proprietario: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts ©

REPERTORI

Bartsch A., Le peintre graveur, Vienne, 1803-1821, v. XII, p. 89, n. 6

BIBLIOGRAFIA

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https://www.thelacmastore.org/products/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy?_pos=1&_sid=ce2a0cc2a&_ss=r

MOSTRE/ESPOSIZIONI

AUTORE DELLA SCHEDA

Takahatake N., 2020
Takahatake N., Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento, ALU.0941.2, https://archivi.cini.it/storiaarte/detail/46469/stampa-46469.html, ISBN 978-88-96445-24-2

AGGIORNAMENTO

Battagliotti L., 2025
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