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"Giulio PIPPI detto GIULIO ROMANO known as JULES ROMAIN (Rome 1499-1546)\nBirth of Saint John the Baptist or Birth of the Virgin Mary.\n\n38 x 30 cm (15 x 11-3/4 in.).\n\nPen and brown ink over black pencil outlines, brown wash, white gouache enhancements.\nSmall holes, creases, abrasions, foxings, stains, restorations along three cropped corners.  Numbered twice \u00AB 150 \u00BB with pen and brown ink lower right; on lining verso an older inscription (Mariette ?) with pen and brown ink : \u00AB Dessin\u00E9 (drawn) par Jules Romain / N'150 \u00BB\n\nProvenance : Former collection of Everhard Jabach (1618-1695), n'618 from \u00AB Transcription de l'Inventaire \u00BB (Inventory record)\nFormer collection of Pierre Crozat (1665-1740), n' \u00AB 150 \u00BB lower right (inventory number after his death in 1740 executed by Mariette with two legal officers) ; Mariette, Abecedario IV p.163\nAnonymous auction, Paris, H\u00F4tel Drouot, April 10, 1924, n'74 (rep.)\n\nBibliography : F. Hartt, Giulio Romano, ed. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1958, t. I (pp. 206-207) and t. II (ill. n'425)\nMassari, Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit, ed. Fratelli Palombi, 1993, pp.151-152 ; n'149 rep.)\nB. Py, \u00AB Les dessins de l'inventaire de 1695 \u00BB (Inventory of Drawings of 1695), Everhard Jabach collector (1618-1695), ed. RMN, 2001, n'618\n\nRelated works : - Duomo frescoes, Verona after cartoons by Giulio Romano (see Hartt, t.2, fig. 425)\n- Inverted engraving of our composition by Diana Ghisi (see Massari n'149)\n- Copy of our composition of engraved plate side in collections of Windsor Castle (Inv. 1358)\n- Drawing of the some composition given to Giulio Romano's school (Christie's Roma,  November 19, 1990, n'68 ; ill. 78)\n- Drawing of the same subject with different composition, Louvre collection (inv. 3454)\n\nThe composition of our drawing borrows certain elements from the frescoes of the Duomo in Verona, executed in 1534 by Francesco Torbido after cartoons by Giulio Romano. We find the female figure carrying a basket on her head but less dominating in our drawing. The work at the Louvre (inv. 3454), which represents a section of the composition, does not include this female subject.\nThe inverted engraving by Diana Ghisi adapts in contrast the exact composition of our drawing. (see Massari, n'149, pp.151-152). The copy with engraved plate side is in the collections of Windsor Castle (inv. 1358).\nAccording to Bernadette Py, the drawing was auctioned at H\u00F4tel Drouot in 1924 (reproduced, bearing the n'150 and corresponds to our drawing) becoming the n' \u00AB 26 dudit (Giulio Romano) \u00BB of Jabach inventory of 1695 described as  : \u00AB La Nativit\u00E9 de Notre-Dame o\u00F9 Sainte Anne est sur le lit, avec quantit\u00E9 de figures, et Dieu le P\u00E8re dans la fen\u00EAtre par en haut, \u00E0 la plume, lav\u00E9 et hauss\u00E9 sur papier bistre, long de 13 \u00BE sur 17 1/3 pouces, 37 livres 10 sols \u00BB (see B. Py, n'618) (The Nativity of Notre Same or Saint Anne on the bed, with quantity of figures and God the Father in the window in upper section, pen, wash and heightened on bistre paper, length of 13-3/4 by 17-1/3 pouces, 37 pounds 10 sols. She further adds that this drawing with its Crozat provenance is surely cited in the Abecedario de Mariette, in relation to the print by Diana Ghisi : \u00AB La Naissance de la Vierge. Cette belle estampe est de l'invention de Jules Romain ; l'on n'y voit aucun nom ni marque de graveur ; mais il n'y en a aucun \u00E0 qui elle convienne mieux qu'\u00E0 Diane de Mantoue. \u2013 Je n'y reconnais point du tout la mani\u00E8re de Diane - . Ceintr\u00E9e par le haut, il y a sur le devant un chien Barbet qui ronge un os. \u2013 M. Crozat en avait l'original.\u00BB (The Birth of the Virgin. This beautiful print is the invention of Jules Romain, we do not see any name or mark of the engraver, but there are none more suitable than Diane of Mantua. - I do not recognize at all Diane's manner -. Encircled along the top, on the front is a Barbet dog gnawing a bone. - Mr. Crozat had the original. )(voir B. Py, n'618).\nThe subject was inspired by the Classical iconography of the Birth of the Virgin Mary.  But with our drawing and Ghisi's engraving, we distinguish exactly the male genital of the newborn, leaving us to assume it maybe the Birth of Saint John the Baptist.\n\nContrary to drawings acquired by Colbert for the King in 1671, this work was not retouched by the French artist during the 17th Century for embellishing.  It has conserved intactly the fine, white gouache enhancements with tight outlines even during wear from the centuries that somewhat mitigated the effect. However, a brown-ink pen was used in some places to \"risen\" (without doubt during the 17th Century) in order to restore consistency in the forms when abrasions altered the meaning of the drawing."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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