GIULIO BONASONE (AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO) The Trojans Hauling into Troy the Wooden Horse.
Engraving, 1545. 402x629 mm; 15⅞x24¾ inches, thread margins. A very good impression with strong contrasts.
Provenance: Unidentified collector, blue ink initial "E" stamp, lower left recto (not in Lugt); Gustav Grunewald, New York, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 1155b).
This engraving is based on a drawing by Primaticcio, in the collection of the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, that may be an early preparatory drawing for the fresco of the defeat of Troy in the Galerie d'Ulisse at Fontainebleau (1541–47). Bartsch 85.
