An extensive landscape with a fortified town, a mother and child in the foreground

Details

Domenico Campagnola (circa 1500-1564)
An extensive landscape with a fortified town, a mother and child in the foreground
pen and brown ink
209 x 306 mm.

Provenance

An unidentified collector's inscription and numbering 'Roma Nr. 47' (verso).
An Italian export release stamp.

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Lot Essay

Similar to a drawing by Campagnola sold at Christie's New York, 28 January 2000 and to others at Chatsworth, M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, London, 1994, nos. 748 and 750-60. The Christie's drawing, which came from Zaccaria Sagredo, had the same inscription on the verso, with the number '30'.

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