Three drawings for medals by the portuguese painter Vieira Lusitano at the Prado Museum
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aearte.2021.20Keywords:
Prado Museum, Drawing, Settecento, Portugal, Vieira Lusitano, Roman stone carvings, Antoine MenginAbstract
The Prado Museum holds three small red chalk drawings that depict the obverse of three commemorative medals. None of them has a known author, and they are kept as part of the Prado’s eighteenth-century drawing collection. This article aims to establish the authorship of these drawings through analysis and comparison with other works in Portuguese museums, as well as through an investigatinon of the artist’s early training in the drawing of Roman stone carvings. Further, these drawings are studied and dated in the context of the artistic production of their author as both draughtsman and engraver: he was none other than Francisco de Matos (1699-1783), better known as Vieira Lusitano.
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