ECL-Bn.2:3/2-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.2:3/2-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus Orestes
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
From the Palazzo Barberini
Was Fa 2 no. 14
Bn 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are catalogued together being continuous drawings of the same sarcophagus
Was Fa 2 no. 14
Bn 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are catalogued together being continuous drawings of the same sarcophagus
Other number
Fa 3 no. 14
Description
Content (description)
On far left three Furies sleep in various attitudes among rocks. A bearded male falls to the ground from a stool as a youth brandishes a sword and pulls his drapery from him. A nurse rushes off in horror to left. Clytemnestra, half-draped, lies dead in the centre, while the youth waves his sword over her. A male, wearing a tunic, squats in front of a curtain on right, holding a block (?), while a Fury moves left behind the curtain, brandishing a snake and a torch. A Fury or youth stands on right behind the curtain, the end of which rests on the head of a herm. At the foot of the herm a Fury lies asleep. By her legs stands Orestes, brandishing his sword, and rests his hand on a tripod, which stands on a pedestal far right in front of a tree.
Content (object)
drawing
Content (note)
Sarcophagus
Dimensions
height (actual size): 340mm
width (actual size): 545mm
width (actual size): 545mm
Inscription
Campiglia Palazzo Barberini No. 14 written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
BN. 14 written in pencil on the front of the drawing lower left.
A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower left, truncated
2B written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right, truncated
A written in ink on the front of the drawing lower left, truncated
2B 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
• ASR (II no. 158)
• Fuhrer (no. 523)
• Fuhrer (no. 523)