Androcles and the lion, ca. 1530 – 1536

Title

Androcles and the lion

Draughtsman

• Baldassare Peruzzi ?

Period Produced

• 16th century

School

• High Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing

Geographic Reference

• Sienese

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• study after a drawing

Captions Added Later

Verso auf dem Montierungsbogen Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• literary representation
• animal depiction

Persons Shown

• Androcles

Illustrated Passage

• Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae, 5, 14

Primary

• 98B(ANDROCLUS)51(+0) Androclus heals the claw of a lion (+ variant)
• 25I1461(+1) city-gate (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage)
• 47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.
• 47I2211 herd, flock

Alternative Attribution

• Italian, 16th century draughtsman; by note on mount
• after Baldassare Peruzzi inventor; by note on mount