An angel blowing his trumpet at four winged devils struggling in the sea

Details

Domenico Campagnola (Padua 1500-1564)
An angel blowing his trumpet at four winged devils struggling in the sea
traces of black chalk, pen and two shades of brown ink, cut along the lower edge
8 ¼ x 10 3/8 in. (20.9 x 26.3 cm)

Provenance

John Skippe (1742-1812), Upper Hall, Ledbury (L. 1529b) (on associated mount), by descent to
Edward Holland-Martin; Christie's, London, 20-21 November 1958, lot 55b (together with another Apocalypse drawing of Satan chained; 25 gns. to Colnaghi).
with Colnaghi, London, 1958, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Literature

T.B. Nickel, Die Landschaftszeichnungen von Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564), unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Universität Wien, 2018, p. 96, note 464.

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Please note that there is additional literature for this lot which is not stated in the printed catalogue:
T.B. Nickel, Die Landschaftszeichnungen von Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564), unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Universität Wien, 2018, p. 96, note 464.

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Lot Essay

This sheet can be related with a series of drawings by Campagnola showing scenes from the Apocalypse, of which twenty-two are in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (see M. Clayton, ‘Drawings by Domenico Campagnola after Giusto de Menabuoni’s Apocalypse Frescoes,’ Master Drawings, XLII, 2004, no. 4, pp. 315-332). Those drawings are based on the fresco cycle with forty-two scenes from the Apocalypse painted by the 14th Century artist Giusto de’Menabuoni as part of his decoration of the Baptistery of the Duomo, Padua, around 1376-1378. The present drawing, however, does not seem to correspond to any of the frescoes in the Baptistery, though similar scenes with angels blowing trumpets do appear.

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