Domenico Campagnola (Venice (?) 1500-1564 Padua)

A battle scene

Details

Domenico Campagnola (Venice (?) 1500-1564 Padua)
A battle scene
pen and brown ink, brown wash
8½ x 9¾ in. (215 x 245 mm.)

Provenance

Gosta Stenman; Christie's, London, 12 December 1985, lot 297.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 159.

Literature

S. Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, under no. 81.

Exhibited

Aspen Art Museum, Old Master Paintings and Drawings from Colorado Collections, 1998, illustrated.

Lot Essay

A very similar Battle Scene is in the Art Institute of Chicago (S. Folds McCullagh, op. cit., no. 81). Suzanne Folds McCullagh has suggested that the present drawing could have been a pendant to the Chicago drawing, or that both were part of a larger frieze.

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