Luca Cambiaso

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Luca Cambiaso
1527-1585
Christ Led Over a Bridge by a Group of Soldiers Holding Torches
ca. 1550-1585
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper, lined with old laid paper.
9 3/4 x 13 15/16 inches (247 x 354 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1973.33
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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, by the artist(?), "di mano dello Cambiagio St"; on verso of lining, in graphite, "Cop.(?) Wilson; 5-0-0; A162 Cambiaso - Platt Coll.; 7100".

Provenance: 
Dan Fellows Platt (1873-1938), Englewood, NJ (Lugt S. 750a and 2066b); Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Princeton 1925; Smith College 1927; Tietze 1947, no. 45; Philadelphia 1950-51, no. 45; Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 11; Columbia 1961, no. 9; Los Angeles and elsewhere 1967-68, no. 9; New York 1967-68, no. 54; Newcome Schleier 1989, 28.
Scholz 1961, no. 33.
Scholz 1963-4, no. 23.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. no. 39, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 156-157.

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