ECL-Bm.8:70-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.8:70-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: Endymion
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Bm 8. 70 and 71 are catalogued together being drawings of the same Sarcophagus
Description
Content (description)
Luna, her drapery billowing, dismounts from her chariot to right, while a winged female holds the heads of her prancing horses; on the back of one horse stands a putto. A small female with flying drapery flies to hold the edge of Luna' s drapery as it billows over her head. Endymion lies on right with a pedum in his hand. Two putti and two winged males lead Luna to him. A sheep lies by his feet, a ram by Luna's chariot. A female with billowing drapery stands far right by Endymion's head, her sinus full of fruit. Top right a small chariot pulled by bulls is driven right by a female on clouds (?); a bearded old man reclines on left of it. Top left Sol races up to right from clouds in his quadriga over a section of zodiac; there is a putto with torch or cornucopia on right of the horses. On left a shepherd sits on rocks with two goats on the ground by him. A half-draped female holding a laden cornucopia sits beneath Luna's horses, a putto by her knee.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Villa Pamfilia
Dimensions
height (actual size): 420mm
width (actual size): 550mm
width (actual size): 550mm
Inscription
Campiglia Villa Pamfilia. Urna nell' Orangeria senza coperchio
written in ink on the back of the drawing
R written in pencil on the back of the drawing
written in ink on the back of the drawing
R written in pencil on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
Diana et Endymion written in ink on the front of the drawing, centre, lower edge
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
1 A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Rossi (III ; 243.1)
• RR (III ; 1 no. 77)
• ASR
• RR (III ; 1 no. 77)
• ASR
