Domenico Campagnola

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Domenico Campagnola

approximately 1500-1564

Landscape with the Baptism of Christ

ca. 1520-1525

Pen and brown ink on paper.

7 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (192 x 276 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 63

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed on a strip of paper, once attached to verso of drawing (according to a note in departmental files) and now affixed to modern mount, in pen and brown ink, by Fairfax Murray (according to note next to inscription), "Do: Campagnola / part of the Landscape is / engraved in Gilberts - 'Cadore'".

Provenance:

Reverend Dr. Henry Wellesley, (1791-1866), Oxford (according to Fairfax Murray); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 July 1866, lot 1610; bought by Hogarth; presumably J. Hogarth & Sons, London; Sir William Richard Drake (1817-1890), London and Oatlands Lodge, Weybridge, Surrey (according to Fairfax Murray); his sale, London, Christie's, 25 May 1892, lot 392; bought by Murray; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Titian, approximately 1488-1576, Formerly attributed to.
Wellesley, Henry, 1791-1866, former owner.
Drake, William Richard, Sir, 1817-1890, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 129, no. 508; Iowa City 1951, no. 28; Toronto 1960, no. 58; Oberhuber in Venice 1976, 131, no. 76; Saccomani 1982, 89-90, 98 notes 69 and 70, no. 22; Eidelberg, 1995, 128, no. 27; Tuyll van Serooskerken 2000, 408, under no. 427. Nickel 2017, cat. 62.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 63, repr.

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