Domenico Campagnola

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Domenico Campagnola

approximately 1500-1564

Jesus Among the Doctors in the Temple

ca. 1550-1552

Pen and brown ink on paper; outlines faintly incised; squared in black chalk.

6 1/16 x 16 7/8 inches (154 x 430 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

I, 65

Description:

The present drawing has been dated by Saccomani to ca. 1550-52, on the basis of its similarity to painted works of that period, such as Domenico’s Supper in the House of Simon (Prague) and Feast of Herod (Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst). The unusual format is suggestive of a fresco or painting, such as an overdoor or predella panel.

Notes:

Watermark: none.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "4" (?); at upper left corner of verso of lining in pen and brown ink, "g (or B?)"; at lower right in graphite, "23 / H" (encircled).

Provenance:

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, 1944, 129, no. 510; Saccomani 1980, 73, 77 note 76, no. 14; Nickel 2017, 98.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 65.

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