Girolamo da Carpi, Italian 1501-1556- A Sheet of Studies - Drunken Silenus, Woman with Vase, Urn; pen and brown ink on paper, 19.2 x 23.5 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Freeman Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 17 June 2014, lot 32. Note: In Greek mythology, Silenus is a rural god, and apanion and tutor to Bacchus. He presides over other demons and is related to musical creativity, prophetic ecstasy, drunken joy, drunken dances and gestures. Carpi is documented in Rome from 1549 to 1553, when he was looking after the antique statuary belonging to Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este. During these late years, he created hundreds of studies after the antique and copies of contemporary masters that possibly once constituted a single large sketchbook, large holdings of which are now in the Rosenbach collection in Philadelphia (85 sheets), the Biblioteca Reale, Turin (90 sheets), and the British Museum (five sheets called group 'A' by Gere and Pouncey).Held in a glazed, gildedposition Florentine style frame. Please refer to department for condition report