Domenico Campagnola

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Domenico Campagnola

approximately 1500-1564

Descent from the Cross

ca. 1545

Pen and brown ink on laid paper.

16 3/16 x 11 1/16 inches (411 x 280 mm)

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

IV, 63

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Description:

Comparable to no. IV, 64, the present sheet by Domenico Campagnola likely dates to after the middle of the 1540s, when the master’s style evolved to a more delicate, rhythmically flowing penstroke.

The drawing abruptly cuts off at both the right and left edges, almost as if Domenico intended to maintain the blank edges to frame the composition. It would also appear to have been cut down slightly at the top and bottom edges.

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed by the artist at upper center, on the panel at head of the cross, in pen and brown ink, "INRI /.../..."; and, according to a note in departmental files, on verso of mount(?), in pen and brown ink, with Barnard's initials followed by: "N: 282 / 16 1/4 by 11.; Domenico Campaganola scolaro di Tiziano, toccò i Paesi per Eccellenza alla Tizianesca; (25)".

Provenance:

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (Lugt 2092); John Barnard (d. 1784), London (Lugt 1420); 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:

Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Barnard, John, 1709-1784, 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. 518; Santagiustina Poniz 1981, 64, 69 n.18.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 63, repr.

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