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ECL-Bn.2:3/3-2013

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Object number

ECL-Bn.2:3/3-2013

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

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): 343mm
width (actual size): 262mm

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.
B 3 written in ink on the front of the drawing lower left, truncated

Materials & techniques note

black lead pencil on paper

Production

Date

c.1710-1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• ASR (II no. 158)
• Fuhrer (no. 523)
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