Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
7 5/16 x 8 5/8 inches (186 x 220 mm; maximum dimensions)
Red chalk on laid paper.
IV, 68
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
For another red chalk drawing of the same subject (albeit different in composition), see Teylers Museum, Haarlem, inv. C 045.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Anchor in a circle, surmounted by a cross (cf. Briquet III, 11912. Padua, 1515).
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 130, no. 522; Saccomani 1980, 67-68, 77 note 48, no. 3; Nickel 2017, 75.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 68, repr.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 68, repr.
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Century Drawings
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