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Lot 25
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Luca Cambiaso

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Luca Cambiaso
  • The Holy Family seated before a Hearth
  • Pen and brown ink and wash;
    Bears inscription on the verso: lucha canbiaxio Pittore genoze

Provenance

Mortimer Brandt (bears his collector's mark on the verso, not in Lugt);
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January 2004, lot 6

Exhibited

New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Luca Cambiaso Drawings, 1967-8, no. 35;
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Old Master Drawings from a Private Collection, 1986;
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore's Print and Drawing Society 1968-1988, 1988   

Literature

J. Lane, 'Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CX, February 1968, p. 111

Catalogue Note

This very popular image of the Holy Family can be compared with other intimate subjects in the graphic oeuvre of Cambiaso such as The Holy Family in the Carpenter's Shop, at Chatsworth.1  Another version of the present subject in the Uffizi, which appears to be of lesser quality than the present example, was published by Suida Manning as related to the painting of The Holy Family with Saint Anne, in the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin.2  Both have a similar setting, a nocturnal scene in an interior, with large figures in a confined space.  Manning also mentioned two further versions of this subject: in the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute, London and at Leipzig. 

1. M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, Venetian and North Italian School, London 1994, p. 145, no. 854, reproduced
2.  B. Suida Manning and W. Suida, Luca Cambiaso la vita e le opere, Milan 1958, p. 185, reproduced fig. 223; and fig. 224