Museum of Art
Artist: Luca Cambiaso (copy after) (Italian, 1527-1585)
Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk on paper
Dimensions: 4 13/16 in. x 3 5/8 in. (12.3 cm. x 9.2 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.12
- "No. 74"
Type: inscription
Location: verso
Materials: pen and brown ink - "Di Luca Cangiagio"
Type: inscription
Location: former mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
A close version of this subject is in the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries (photo, Witt Library.) Cambiaso also explored other variants of this composition (see L. Ragghianti Collobi, "Il magistrale Luca Cambiaso," Critica d' Arte, vol. 6, no. 33 [1959], p. 171, fig 101). The Bowdoin sheet could be a studio copy.
Original mount
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).