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May 20, 2013

Aeneas Saving Anchises at the Fall of Troy

1587–88

Federico Barocci

(Italian, 1528–1612)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and yellow gouache heightened with traces of white, over black chalk, with stylus (banister); framing lines in pen and brown ink

Support: Gray-green laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 27.7 x 42.6 cm (10 7/8 x 16 3/4 in.)

L. E. Holden Fund 1960.26

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This drawing may have been once owned by the painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Description

In book two of Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid (29-19 BC), the Trojan hero Aeneas escapes from the burning city of Troy and its Greek invaders with his family. Here the artist shows them making their way through a classical corridor. Aeneas carries his elderly father, Anchises, entrusted with holding their household gods. Aeneas holds the hand of his son, Ascanius, and his wife Creusa follows behind. Creusa's separation from the group alludes to her fate: she will fall behind and not survive their flight. Quick sketches on the right border of the sheet show Barocci practicing the balancing pose of Aeneas as he carries his father, and the stance of Creusa. The drawing relates to a now lost painting by Barocci and was also made into an engraving by Agostino Carracci (see CMA 1963.456). Details in the drawing such as the dog bounding down the stairs and Creusa's flowing hair and head scarf do not appear in the engraving.

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left, in brown ink: 17 ; lower right, in brown ink: [illegible] ; lower right, in brown ink: 55 ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in brown ink: Intagliato da Agostino Caracci. Il quadro è in Casa Borghese . [sideways] ; upper right, in graphite: 2767 [circled]

Provenance

Possibly Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Antwerp, (according to Jaffé 1963). ¹

?-1740

Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), Paris.

1741

his sale, 10 April-13 May 1741, lot 248.

?-1784

Jean Baptiste François Nourri (1697-1784), Paris

1785

his sale, 24 February-14 March 1785, lot 119.

Charles Paul Jean Baptiste de Bourgevin Vialart de Moligny, comte de Saint-Morys (1743-1795), Paris

?-1875

Guichardot, Paris

1875

his sale, Paris, 7-10 July 1875, no. 18

1960

with Erardo Aeschlimann, Milan.

1960-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹Michael Jaffé, “The Figurative Arts of the West c. 1400-1800,” Apollo (December 19630: 457-467.

Citations

"Year in Review 1960." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 72 (December 1960). Mentioned: p. 253, under n. 72

Cleveland Museum of Art, “Two Italian Drawings,” October 25, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Richards, Louise. "Federico Barocci: A Study for Aeneas' Flight from Troy." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48 (April 1961): 63-65. Mentioned: pp. 63-65; Reproduced: p. 63, n. 1

Olsen, Harald. Federico Barocci. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1962. Mentioned: p. 182; Reproduced: n. 64

Jaffé, Michael. "The Figurative Arts of the West c. 1400-1800." Apollo (December 1963): 457-467. Mentioned: p. 466; Reproduced: p. 462, n. 5

Cummings, Frederick J. Art in Italy, 1600-1700. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Mentioned: p. 73, under n. 63; Reproduced: p. 74

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 100 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 100 archive.org

Günther, Hubertus. "Uffizien 135 A- Eine Studie Baroccis." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 14 (1970): 239-246. Mentioned: p. 242

Bacou, Roseline. Cartons d'artistes du XVe au XIXe siècle. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1974. Mentioned: p. 19, under n. 14

Gaeta Bertelà, Giovanna. Disegni di Federico Barocci: Catalogo della mostra. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1975. Mentioned: p. 61, under n. 56

Feinblatt, Ebria. Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. Mentioned: p. 92, under n. 112

Morford, Mark P. O., and Robert J. Lenardon. Classical Mythology, 2nd edition. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1977. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 326

Günther, Hubertus. "Federico Barocci 'Die Flucht des Äneas aus Troja': Zur Geschichte des Bildes." Weltkunst 47 (October 1977): 1858-1859. Mentioned: p. 1859; Reproduced: p.1858

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 116 archive.org

Pillsbury, Edmund P., and Louise S. Richards. The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1978. Mentioned: pp. 9-10, 77-78, under n. 54; Reproduced: p. 77, n. 54

Walters, Gary R. Federico Barocci: Anima Naturaliter. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978. Mentioned: pp. 129 and 201, note 23

Bohlin, Diane DeGrazia. Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family: A Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1979. Mentioned: pp. 326-328, note 2

Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. Mentioned: pp. 42-44; Reproduced: p. 43, n. 46

Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned: pp. 8, 55, 60, 61-63, under n. 34; Reproduced: p. 62, n. 34

Emiliani, Andrea. Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535-1612), vol. 2. Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1985. Mentioned: p. 236; Reproduced: p. 237, n. 490

Miller, Michael. Drawing: A Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987. Reproduced: p. 3

Larsen, Erik. "Ein unbekanntes Hauptwerk des Peter Paul Rubens aus seiner italienischen Zeit 'Die Flucht des Äneas aus Troja.' " Pantheon 52 (1994): 79-85. Mentioned: pp. 82-84; Reproduced: p. 80, n. 3

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 40-41, 284; Reproduced: p. 41, n. 10

Goldner, George G. " Review of Master Drawings from The Cleveland Museum of Art." Master Drawings 40, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 174-176. Mentioned: p. 175, under n. 10

Olszewski, Edward J., edited. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008. Mentioned: pp. 33-34, under n. 29; Reproduced: p. 33, n. 29

Mann, Judith Walker, Babette Bohn, with Carol Plazzotta. Federico Barocci: Renaissance Master of Color and Line. St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. Mentioned: pp. 274 and 281, note 13

Exhibition history

Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 117): June 3, 2013 - October 7, 2013.

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).

Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (April 6-May 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).

Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (April 29-June 13, 1976).

The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-March 25, 1978).

The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 15-March 26, 1978).

The Graphic Art of Frederico Barocci. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (April 15-June 4, 1978).

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983).

Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).

Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

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