Concert champêtre. Artist: Girolamo Romanino (Italian, Brescia 1484/87-1560 Brescia). Dimensions: 11 7/16 x 16 1/8 in. (29.1 x 40.9 cm). Date: ca. 1520-30.Romanino probably trained as a painter in his native Bresciabut soon came under the influence of Venetian painting. Thesubject of this sketch, a group of ladies and a satyr playingmusic in a landscape, was inspired by works by Giorgioneand Titian, the predominant Venetian painters of the earlysixteenth century. In this sheet the artist tried more than onecompositional idea, changing the satyr at far right from astanding to a seated position. The drawing has been connectedto frescoes with similar themes that Romanino painted inthe Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent in 1531-32. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.