- 535
Luca Cambiaso
Description
- Luca Cambiaso
- relmusto lercari, as a warrior, seated on a plinth, in a pendentive
Pen and brown ink and wash, within brown ink framing lines
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This drawing is clearly related to the portrait of Relmusto Lercari, one of the historical figures included in Cambiaso's decoration of the ceiling of the salone of Palazzo Lercari-Parodi, Genoa (fig. 1). The central fresco records Megollo Lercari's founding in 1300 of the Genoese merchants' warehouse in Trebizond. Surrounding that are cartouches enclosing representations of distinguished figures from the family's past. We are grateful to Mary Newcome Schleier for endorsing the attribution to Cambiaso and informing us that the ceiling is dated 1572.
A weaker version of this drawing is in the Uffizi.1 A compositional study for the central fresco was in the Suida-Manning collection and a study for the figure of Megollo Lercari is also in the Uffizi.2
1. Uffizi 13729; see Bertina Suida Manning and William Suida, Luca Cambiaso, Milan 1958, p. 90, pl. CLXXVII, fig. 286
2. Idem., p. 90, pl. CLXXII, fig. 279, and pl. CLXXVII, fig. 284