Lot 42
  • 42

Domenico Campagnola

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Domenico Campagnola
  • The Flagellation
  • Pen and brown ink over black chalk

Provenance

Dr. John Anthony Cramer, Oxford, his sale 1847 (according to label from old mount);
with Rich, London, from whom purchased, circa 1956 by,
Ralph Holland

Exhibited

Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Old Master Drawings, 1964, no. 2 (as Circle of Campagnola);
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian and other drawings, 1500-1800, 1974, no. 3, reproduced pl. V (as Circle of Campagnola);
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, Italian and other drawings, 1500-1800, 1975, no. 3 (as Circle of Campagnola);
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian Drawings, 1525-1750, 1982, no. 3, reproduced pl. 1A (as Attributed to Campagnola)

Condition

Hinge mounted in three places to the upper edge. There are some very minor areas of surface dirt to the sheet, though it is in otherwise excellent condition. The pen and ink medium is strong throughout, with the ink more of a golden brown tone than the catalogue reproduction suggests. Overall the work is in very fine condition.
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Catalogue Note

Tobias Nickel, who was working on a catalogue of Campagnola drawings, wrote to Ralph Holland in 2002, remarking that this drawing fits with a group of religious subjects, similar in style, composition and handling, which seemed to him to date from the 1540s.  Ralph Holland had been cautious in his attribution of the drawing, but gradually became more convinced that it was autograph.  He compared it with a drawing of a Fête champêtre in the Albertina.1

1.  Disegni veneti dell'Albertina di Vienna, exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Cini, 1961, p. 25, no. 18, reproduced