The Conversion of Paul

Details

WORKSHOP OF LUCA CAMBIASO (MONEGLIA 1527-1585 MADRID)
The Conversion of Paul
black chalk, pen and brown ink
11 x 16 ¼ in. (28 x 41 cm)

Provenance

Private collection, Italy, 17th Century (?).
Sir Erasmus Philipps, 5th Baronet (1699-1743), Picton Castle, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire; by descent to
Richard Philipps, 1st Baron of Milford (1744-1823), Picton Castle (L. 2687) (label with his coat of arms on the verso of the secondary support); by descent to
Sir John Philipps (died 1949), Picton Castle, sold to Calmann.
with Hans Calmann (1899-1982), London.
Nathalie and Hugo Weisgall, New York.

Literature

Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585, exhib. cat., Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, and Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, 2006, p. 332, under no. 60 (entry by J. Bober).

Exhibited

Sacramento, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, The Collecting Muse. A Selection from the Nathalie and Hugo Weisgall Collection, 1975, no.1, ill.

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Lot Essay

Luca Cambiaso is not known to have painted the Conversion of Saint Paul, yet he treated the subject in his graphic work. Several autograph drawings of the subject survive (Luca Cambiaso, op. cit., nos. 11, 51, ill.), and an even larger number of replicas by the workshop are known (ibid., no. 60, ill.). These drawings demonstrate the scale, the variety of hands and the skills in Cambiaso’s workshop and among his followers.

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