Hersilia intervening to prevent the battle between the romans and sabines

XVI century. Pencil ground, Wash, Grey-brown ink, Pencil on paper.
Not on display

The composition is related to one of the subsidiary scenes in Cambiaso´s fresco donation of the ceiling of the salone of the Villa Imperiale at Genoa-Terralba, painted around 1565. Weak, studio versions of the same Cambiaso composition as the Prado drawing are in Berlin (inv. no. KdZ 16025) and the Ambrosiana, Milán (inv. no. F262 N47).

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.263

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Inventory number: D001711
Author: Anonymous (Follower of: Luca Cambiaso)
Title: Hersilia intervening to prevent the battle between the romans and sabines
Date: XVI century
Technique: Pencil ground; Wash; Grey-brown ink; Pencil
Support: Paper
Dimension: Height: 220 mm; Width: 315 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931
Entry date: 1931

Bibliography +

Manning, Bertina S., Luca Cambiaso. La Vita e Le Opere, Ceschina, Milán, 1958, pp. 74.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 262.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Virginia, 2008, pp. 263.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 503.

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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