Prometheus

XVI century. Grey-brown wash, Grey-brown ink, Pencil ground, Pencil on brown paper.
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Prometheus is shown bound to a rock, with the eagle settled on his body, pecking at his side. The subject was previously wrongly identified as that of Jupiter Carrying off Ganymede. Another equally coarse version of the composition is in the Cambiaso Album, no.72, D01913. A slightly superior studio variant of the design showing differences in the pose of Prometheus is in the Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung, Munich (inv. no. 2780).

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.237

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Inventory number: D001912
Author: Anonymous (Follower of: Luca Cambiaso)
Title: Prometheus
Date: XVI century
Technique: Grey-brown wash; Grey-brown ink; Pencil ground; Pencil
Support: Brown paper
Dimension: Height: 253 mm; Width: 378 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931
Entry date: 1931

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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. 237.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 237.

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

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