Collection Online as of November 28, 2023

Romulus and Remus Found by Faustulus (recto)

Romanino

(Italian, 1484/87–1562)

Pen and brown ink, with point of brush and brown wash over black chalk (traces of red chalk and purple wash unrelated to composition)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1963.87.a

not on view

Inscriptions

upper right, in black ink: [2?]00

Provenance

[Kurt Meissner]

Exhibition history

CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).

CMA, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions (Oct. 21, 1980-Feb. 15, 1981).

CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 121, illus., p. 137.

CMA, Italian Prints and Drawings (Jan. 30-Mar. 26, 1968).

CMA, Old Master Prints and Drawings (July 29, 1966- ).

CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).

CMA, "Year in Review for 1963" (Nov. 26, 1963-Jan. 5, 1964), cma Bulletin 50 (1963), p. 294 no. 142, illus. p. 267.