Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564
Fortified Town Before Mountains
3 13/16 x 5 13/16 inches (98 x 148 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
1982.34
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: indecipherable image in circle.
Description
Although the attribution of the sheet to Domenico Campagnola has been questioned, Tobias Nickel argues that there should be no further doubts about the work’s autograph status, and that it is characteristic of Campagnola’s work in the 1530s.
In 1961, Janos Scholz noted the similarity between the Morgan drawing and a sheet in the Albertina, Vienna (Schönbrunner-Meder 1896-1908, 12: 1353), which also appears to be by Domenico.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso of lining, in graphite, "Dom. Campagnola / Coll. Prybam".
Associated names
Prybram, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Durham 1965, no. 7; Hartford 1969-70, no. 5; Montgomery 1975, no. 14; Nickel 2017, 115, cat. 110.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 245.
Scholz, Montgomery, 1975, no. 14, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 245.
Scholz, Montgomery, 1975, no. 14, repr. (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
Classification
Century Drawings
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