A Battle on a Bridge, c.1600

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with blue wash over black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk, on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 26.7 x 39.2 cm (10 1/2 x 15 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2010.93.17

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Balducci (artist) Italian, c. 1560 - 1631 or after

Image Use

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Inscription

by a later hand, lower left in graphite: 2789J

Provenance

(Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1936, part of lot 95 [as Bellisario Corenzio]); Sir Robert Witt [1872-1952], London; Anthony Blunt [1907-1983], London; (Brian Sewell, London, 1968); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1964: The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection. Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1964, no. 8 (as Belisario Corenzio, "Episode from the Life of Juan of Austria").

1991: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, 1991, 72-73, no. 27 (as Corenzio)(cat. by Frederick A. den Broeder).

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 40-41, no. 9 (entry by Oliver Tostmann).

Bibliography

1965: Vitzthum, Walter. Review of The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection. Master Drawings 3, no. 4 (Winter 1965): 405 (as Corenzio).

1982: Bean, Jacob, and Lawrence Turcic. 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1982: 66, under no. 54 (as Corenzio).

1992: "An Exhibition of Master Drawings Presented by Jean-Luc Baroni." Exh. cat. Colnaghi, New York and London. London, 1992: under no. 22.

1992: Di Giampaolo, Mario. "Balducci o Corenzio? Un'ipotesi." Kunst des Cinquecento in der Toskana (Italienische Forschungen erausgegeben vom Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz, Folge 3, Band 17). Edited by Monika Cämmerer. Munich, 1992: 332.

1994: Harris, Ann Sutherland. Review of Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. Master Drawings 32, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 69.

2010: Di Giampaolo, Mario. "Balducci o Corenzio? Un'ipotesi." Reprint of 1992 article in Mario Di Giampaolo, Scritti dul disegno italiano 1971-2008. Edited by Cristiana Garofalo. Florence, 2010: 327.