Lot 45: JACOPO STRADA

DESIGN FOR A BASIN WITH FOUR SCENES FROM OVID'S METAMORPHOSES

16 by 21 1/4 in; 406 by 541 mm

Pen and brown ink and wash with touches of gray-brown wash;Bears later numbering in black chalk in the lower left corner: 3

San Francisco 2007, reproduced p. 67

An elaborate design for a dish with four compartments divided by winged tritons and with a central oval with an allegorical figure of a river god. The four compartments depict: Diana and Actaeon, Latona and the Lycian farmers, Diana and her Nymphs bathing, and The Rape of Europa. A weaker version of the same design, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was catalogued by P. Ward-Jackson as a copy after Salviati. (1)

1. See P. Ward-Jackson, Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue. Italian Drawings, Volume One: 14th-16th century, London 1979, p. 141, no. 296, reproduced p. 142