PERINO DEL VAGA
(b. 1501, Firenze, d. 1547, Roma)

Shipwreck of Aeneas

c. 1530
Pen and black ink, brushed gray wash on paper with gray wash, 186 x 349 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This drawing depicts the shipwreck of Aeneas: Neptune saves Aeneas and his crew from the waves. It is s preliminary drawing of a lost fresco in the Palazzo Doria, Genoa.




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