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He did not only produce designs for prints and book illustrations but also for objects to be made either in metal or porcelain: tableware, armours, swords, jewellery, coins and medals. This design for the decoration of the underside of a circular tazza was probably executed for embossed silver. \r\nDelaune’s style was deeply influenced by the school of Fontainebleau and such artists as Rosso Fiorentino, Nicolò dell’Abate and especially Luca Penni, whom he copied and subsequently engraved. \r\n","physicalDescription":"Design for the decoration of the underside of a tazza, comprising four oval cartouches framed in strapwork containing representations of Faith, Hope, Charity, and Divine Inspiration. Two alternative designs for the spaces between the cartouches show, respectively, a satyr’s mask and a crouching putto amongst fruit and foliage. On a circular sheet, from the centre of which a roundel has been cut. Mounted on a sheet of old paper, which was formerly bound. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Etienne Delaune","id":"A8334"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":"Manner of"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"wash","id":"x45732"},{"text":"chalk","id":"AAT80058"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pen, ink and wash with traces of black chalk on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[{"text":"Renaissance","id":"AAT21140"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2015HW9216","2012FU1424"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"French drawings","shelf":"6","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"second half 16th century","earliest":"1550-01-01","latest":"1599-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"20.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Formerly attributed to anonymous: German or Netherlandish \r\nInscribed in pencil on the back: Benvenuto Cellini\r\nPurchased from Harold Reeves, Nov. 1929","historicalContext":"This drawing is executed in a freer style compare to the other drawings by Delaune in the collection, and is close in style to a series of drawings in the Albertina: <i>Diverses Actions pastorales et champêtres</i> (pen, ink and wash on vellum, 4.5 x 3.7 cm – Inv. No. 24230 to 24234). \n\nThe allegory of Faith is similar with minor variations to the allegory of Faith surmounting the cartouche of the <i>Destruction of the Pharoah’s Army</i> by Delaune in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Inv. No. 91.GG.76). The four allegories and the two alternative designs for the spaces between the cartouches, respectively a satyr’s mask and a crouching putto amongst fruit and foliage, are characteristic of the School of Fontainebleau imagery.  \n\r\nAlthough this drawing appears very close to Delaune’s manner, it is different from comparable circular designs. The three designs for tazza bowls in the Louvre (Inventaire général, Ecole française, V, no. 3544-3546) appear more refined and executed with a higher degree of finish. For all three, the spaces between the cartouches are filled up with 4 different grotesques with strapwork, fruits and foliage, while the centre is also decorated. This drawing was made on paper, a rare artistic practice for Delaune who tend to exclusively use vellum (with an exception for bigger formats). JF Haywards retained that ‘the restrained use of strapwork suggests the later Fontainebleau manner’.\r\nThis design does not seem to have been subsequently engraved.","briefDescription":"Drawing, Manner of Etienne Delaune, Design for decoration of the underside of a  tazza, comprising four oval cartouches framed in strapwork containing representations of Faith, Hope, Charity and (?) Divine inspiration, French school, second half of the 16th century\r\n","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"J F Hayward, <u>Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620</u>, London, 1976, p. 349, pl. 114."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929</u>, London: Board of Education, 1930."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Design","id":"THES48872"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.2488-1929"],"accessionNumberNum":"2488","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1929,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-07","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}