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Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564
Three Reapers Harvesting; a Fourth, in the Foreground, Sharpening His Scythe
ca. 1553
Pen and brown ink and wash, lead white opaque watercolor (oxidized), on blue paper; black chalk at upper, right, and left edges; traces of gold at outer edge.
9 1/8 x 5 1/16 inches (231 x 121 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 62
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Watermark: none.
On same mat as IV, 61.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso of lining in graphite, "5678"; in graphite, "Campag[nola]" (cropped at right); in graphite, "157; 2 / 22 (encircled) / 5".
Provenance:
Everhard Jabach (1618-1695), Paris (inventory folio 51 no. 53 "Campagnola - Un paysage des faucheurs et des femmes qui donnent à manger aux poules à la plume lavé et haussé sur papier bleu long de 12 1/2 et haut 12 pouces 3 livres[livres superscript] 10 sols[sols superscript]")); perhaps Gerhard Michael Jabach (possibly his sale, Amsterdam, 16 October 1753, lot 313 2 fl. 5 bought by de Leth, or lot 314 "4 differente Historien" 1 fl. 2 bought by Assueri); Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus (1692-1765), Paris (Lugt 474, as P. Crozat); John MacGowan (d. 1803), Edinburgh (Lugt 1496), as MacGowan; H. Brigstocke; sale, Christie's, London, 1 July 1986; 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:
Jabach, Everhard, 1618-1695, former owner.
Jabach, Gerhard Michael, former owner.
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
MacGowan, John, -1803, former owner.
Brigstocke, H., former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Fairfax Murray 1905-1912, 4: no. 62; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, 129, no. 517; Santagiustina Poniz 1981, 65; Py 2002, 61, no. 125.
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