Seated Faun Holding Cornucopia (recto); Sketch of Tree and House (verso)
n.d.
Medium
Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, and graphite (added later) (recto) and graphite (verso) on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
19.8 × 22.8 cm (7 13/16 × 9 in.)
Classification
wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112832
About the Artist
Giulio Romano · 1499–1546
Giulio Romano (c. 1499–1546) was the most gifted pupil of Raphael and one of the founding figures of Mannerism, the style that succeeded the High Renaissance in Italy. Born Giulio Pippi in Rome, he entered Raphael's workshop as a boy and proved so talented that by the time of Raphael's death in 1520 he was effectively running the studio and overseeing the completion of major unfinished commissions...