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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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College
  • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College (Brunswick: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art, 1985).