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Lot Essay
Campagnola's drawings often show a close relationship with the compositional vocabulary of contemporary printmakers, as for example between his landscapes and the prints of Albrecht Dürer. As Linda Wolk-Simon has pointed out, the Chatsworth drawing shows a strong echo of Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving of the same subject (Bartsch 23-I; W.M. Griswold New York exhib. cat., 1994, p. 124, note 1).
The present drawing was formerly one of a sizeable number by the artist in the collection of Sir Peter Lely. More than two dozen, including this one, were among the earliest drawings to enter the collection of William Cavendish, later 2nd Duke of Devonshire, perhaps as early as 1694, while a further six entered the collection of General John Guise (1682-1765) and are now at Christ Church, Oxford (J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, nos. 723-726 and 728-729).
The present drawing was formerly one of a sizeable number by the artist in the collection of Sir Peter Lely. More than two dozen, including this one, were among the earliest drawings to enter the collection of William Cavendish, later 2nd Duke of Devonshire, perhaps as early as 1694, while a further six entered the collection of General John Guise (1682-1765) and are now at Christ Church, Oxford (J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, nos. 723-726 and 728-729).