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Group of Figures with Prisoner Prostrate on the Ground

Attributed to Giulio Campi
approximately 1507-1573

Group of Figures with Prisoner Prostrate on the Ground

8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (218 x 176 mm; maximum dimensions)
Pen and brown ink, light brown wash, on paper.
1989.53

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Formerly attributed to Jacopo Bertoia.
Description

While in the Scholz collection the drawing used to be identified as the work of Domenico Beccafumi, an attribution with which both Popham and Pouncey disagreed. The latter suggested Jacopo Bertoia, under which attribution the drawing entered the collection of the Morgan Library. Though not Bertoia, the artist is clearly a follower of Parmigianino. Another inscription on the mount suggested Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, but the correct attribution is probably more likely to be found in the circle of the Campi.

A pen-and-ink drawing of a Male Nude Bowing Low Before a Standing Bearded Man, Accompanied by a Third, Standing Figure at Weimar, for which Oberhuber suggested a follower of Parmigianino, must be by the same hand (Schuster 1999, no. 8). The Weimar drawing may well illustrate the Return of the Prodigal Son.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on mount at lower center, in graphite, "Girolamo Mazzoli sec XVI"; to the right of this, stamped in black, "14x. x"; on verso, in graphite, "N 226"; "Beccafumi"; in pen and brown ink, "240".
Associated names
Campi, Antonio, 1522 or 1523-1587, Alternate attribution.
Bertoia, Jacopo, 1544-approximately 1573, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department