The Fall of the Giants, Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I), Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I) (rejected attribution), after Giulio Romano, 1540 - 1544

Title(s)

The Fall of the Giants

Object type

• drawing
• design

Object number

RP-T-1951-253(R)

Inscriptions / marks

• watermark: crowned arms of Troyes, IP below

Description

Ontwerp voor een prent.

Artist

• draughtsman: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (I)
• after design by: Giulio Romano (rejected attribution)

Dating

1540 - 1544

Material

• paper
• paint (coating)
• ink

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 275 mm × width 408 mm

What

• battle of the Giants against the gods: gigantomachy

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1951

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Val der giganten
• Daphne verandert in een boom

• Grand design : Pieter Coecke van Aelst and renaissance tapestry, Elizabeth A.H. Cleland, Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Stijn Alsteens, Nadine Monica Orenstein, p. 368, cat.nr. 20
• Rubens : copies and adaptations from renaissance and later artists : Italian artists, Jeremy Wood, dl. 1 p. 358-359; dl. 2, fig. 198
• Gigantensturz-Darstellungen in der italienischen Kunst : zur Instrumentalisierung eines mythologischen Bildsujets im historisch-politischen Kontext, Andreas W. Vetter, p. 56
• Giulio Romano : pinxit et delineavit : opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega, p. 54-55
• Netherlandish drawings of the 15th and 16th centuries, dl. 1, p. 203, dl. 2, afb. p. 208, cat.nr. 538
• Cornelis Bos : a study of the origins of the netherland grotesque, p. 206, pl. 62, fig. 237a
• Rubens Marginalia II, J. G. van Gelder, p. 843, fig. 67
• Stijn Alsteens, 'The Drawings of Pieter Coecke van Aelst', Master Drawings 52 (2014) nr. 3, p. 294, 335, fig. 23, nr. A36.
• Cat.tent. The King's Drawings from the Musée du Louvre, Atlanta (High Museum of Art), 2006/7, p. 40.
• Cat.tent. Rubens : Drawings on Italy, Edinburgh (National Gallery of Scotland), Nottingham (Djanogly Art Gallery), 2002, p. 60.