Design for a Decoration
attributed to Marco Marchetti (Faenza 1526/7 - Faenza 1588)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1550 - 1588
Materials
Pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper
Measurements
477 x 370 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267133
Summary
Pen and brown ink drawing and brown wash on paper, Design for a Decoration attributed to Marco Marchetti (Faenza 1526/7 - Faenza 1588). An ornamental grotesque design of vertical composition with entablature, cartouche and allegorical female figures; one, draped, surmounted on a pedestal on top of a conch shell; two winged female centaurs on either side of curved ledge; a standing female within the niche; two nude female figures on either side, seated on stone bench and below right, a female herm-like figure. A red chalk drawing of the same composition, attributed to Francesco Salviati (1510-63), is in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no. 938 O).
Provenance
John Skippe (1742 - 1811); by descent to Edward 'Ruby' Holland-Martin (1900 - 1981); his sale, Christie's, 20 November 1958 (Lot 129A); purchased by Brinsley Ford and by descent to Augustine Ford. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Augustine Ford and allocated to the National Trust for Osterley, 2023
Makers and roles
attributed to Marco Marchetti (Faenza 1526/7 - Faenza 1588), artist
References
Ford 1998 Brinsley Ford, John Ingamells, Francis Russell, John Christian, Nicholas Penny, Jennifer Montagu, Howard Coutts, Timothy Wilson & Dudley Dodd, The Ford Collection – II, Walpole Society, Vol. 60, 1998, pp. 91-376, p. 168, RBF107 Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 27