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Neptune in his chariot drawn by hippocamps pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower right corner made up 10 x 16 in. (255 x 406 mm.) PROVENANCE Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Wicar. Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445). Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (L. 2710b), by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's London, 5 December 1972, lot 18 (œ11,000). with Thos. Agnew & Sons. LITERATURE Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 53. V. Mancini, 'Un insospettato collaboratore di Giulio Romano a Palazzo del Te: Girolamo da Treviso', Paragone, (453), 1987, pp. 10 and 20, note 42. K. Oberhuber, 'L'apparato decorativo di palazzo Te', Giulio Romano, exhib. cat., Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 1989, p. 354. C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, The Italian Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum, Haarlem, 2000, under no. 146. EXHIBITION London, Lawrence Gallery, Giulio Romano, Francesco Primaticcio, Leonardo da Vinci and Pierino del Vaga, Fifth Exhibition, 1836, no. 8 NOTES Related to an hexagonal composition painted on the ceiling of the Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo Te, near Mantua, between September 1527 and March 1528. Another version now regarded by van Tuyll as the primary study for the ceiling is in the Teyler Museum, C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken, op. cit., no. 146. For most of his post-Roman commissions Giulio relied on his assistants to execute the finished works. He provided them with a precise design for them to transfer into oil painting or fresco.