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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Piero di Cosimo. The drawing shows a woman lying in a landscape with nude figures on either side of her. The woman is lying on her side, facing forwards, with her head towards the left and her feet towards the right of the composition. She is lying on a sheet and has her head and right elbow raised on a pillow to the left. She is bare-breasted but has another sheet wraped around her body from her waist to her feet. Two trees are positioned, one just behind and one just to the right of her feet. Towards the left edge is a female nude walking into the composition with her hands raised to hold the feet of a goat resting on the top of her shoulders. She has her head turned to the left to look at the head of the goat. Towards the right is a male nude facing the viewer with his left wrist resting on his waist and his right hand lifted upwards, while he is looking to the right.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 5
PIERO DI COSIMO
(b. 1462; d. 1521?)
ARIADNE
British Museum, 1902-8-22-6. Pen and bistre wash. 14.3 x 24.8 cm. (5 5/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
In the centre Ariadne, with body and arms bare and a drapery thrown over her lower limbs, lies with her head and shoulder resting on a pillow, in an attitude nearly resembling that of the Procris of the National Gallery, and borrowed from the same antique motive. This grasses and a few young trees grow on the ground to the right and left of and behind her. In the distance to the right the sea, with the ship of Theseus sailing away dimly seen. To the right a rounded youthful figure, probably of Bacchus, stands with his right hand raised and his left resting against his side. On the other side a youth, no doubt one of the following of the god, stands holding on his shoulders a kid with its legs bound. The two lateral figures are closely and darkly shaded with the pen, in quite a different manner of handling from the central part of the design, which is lightly washed within delicate pen outlines. These two figures have been drawn on separate pieces of paper, cut out, and pasted in their present position, that now to the left having been first tried in a reverse direction on the right.
SIDNEY COLVIN."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Piero Cosimo, Ariadne, (1932.69/5). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104971 | Go to resource |
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