Christ taken prisoner

Details

Workshop of Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia 1527-1585 Madrid)
Christ taken prisoner
with inscription ‘Lucas/ Can[...]’ (?) (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower corners made up
8 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (22.4 x 30.9 cm)

Provenance

Unidentified collector's mark RSH (not in Lugt).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 24 June 1983, lot 36, where acquried by Robert Landolt.

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Lot Essay

Cambiaso treated the Arrest of Christ numerous times in his drawings including three in the Uffizi, Florence (see B. Suida Manning and W. Suida, Luca Cambiaso: la vita e le opere, Milan, 1958, p. 185, figs. 240-242).

We are grateful to Jonathan Bober for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.

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