Lot 89: Giulio Pippi, called Giulio Romano , Rome 1499 - 1546 Mantua STANDING CLASSICAL MALE FIGURE WITH A SHIELD Pen and brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk for transfer; bears old attribution: di Giu... Romano

Pen and brown ink and wash, squared in black chalk for transfer; bears old attribution: di Giu... Romano

measurements note 249 by 137 mm

Acquired by Philip Pouncey in New York;
thence by inheritance to his wife, Myril Pouncey;
her estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January 2003, lot 8

This characteristic study by Giulio, its monumental pose clearly inspired by the antique, does not seem to be connected with any surviving work. A late drawing, it is stylistically reminiscent of the figure of the enthroned Jupiter, flanked by Neptune and Venus, in a fresco decoration in the Sala of the last Mantuan house inhabited by Giulio.υ1 Giulio purchased the house in March 1538 and the Sala was the only room he decorated. Giulio was one of the most influential of all the pupils of Raphael, not only as a painter but also as a draughtsman and architect. Perhaps the greatest monument to his many-sided artistic personality is the Palazzo Te in Mantua, which he designed and decorated during the 1530s for the Duke Federico II Gonzaga. 1. See Giulio Romano, exhibition catalogue, Mantua, Palazzo Te, 1989, reproduced p. 228, and pp. 481-485