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Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564
Landscape with Town on a River, and Camels in the Foreground
ca. 1545-1555
Pen and dark brown and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink.
9 3/8 x 15 1/8 inches (239 x 387 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 68
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Formerly attributed to Italian school, 16th century.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, "Titinen".
Watermark: Open crown surmounted by a six-pointed star (cf. Briquet II, 4835. Prague, 1561; Lucca, 1565-66; Rome, 1567-68).
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.
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Associated names:
Anonymous, Italian School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography:
Weitenkampf 1917, 79, no. 3; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, 1944, 129, no. 513; New York 1923, no. 68; Nickel 2017, cat. 235.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 68, repr.
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