Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Standard Bearer

Attributed to Luca Cambiaso
1527-1585

Standard Bearer

early 16th century
10 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches (276 x 185 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
1958.22

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
Associated name: Giulio Benso, 1592-1668.
Description

Another version of this composition is in Stockholm, where it is attributed to Giulio Benso (Bjurström 1979, no. 297). A further drawing, since destroyed, showing a standard bearer followed by a dog, was in the Istituto Jovellanos in Gijon, where it was catalogued as by Luca Cambiaso (Perez Sanchez 1969, no. 167). Yet another drawing of a standard bearer, in this instance with a raised flag, was on the London art market (Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1987, lot 139).

Inscriptions/Markings
Very faintly inscribed at lower left, in graphite, "Cambiaso"; on verso at upper center, in graphite, "No 63"; at lower right, in pencil, "oudpapier / als AvanDyk".
Watermark: Pilgrim, holding staff, inside circle, above letters "GR". Similar to Briquet 7593 (Draguignan, Provence, Cote d'Azur, 1561), standing man wearing hat.
Associated names
Benso, Giulio, 1592-1668, associated name.
Weitzner, Julius, -1986, former owner. NNPM
Lehel, Robert, former owner.
Bibliography
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 135.
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 93.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department