A Battle on Horseback

1510s

Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

Domenico Campagnola

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19 × 31 cm (7 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.75.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 497, as "shop (later member of the family)"


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely [1618 - 1680] London (Lugt 2092). Victor Koch, London. (sale, Christie's London, 19 April 1988, no. 31). William Rudolf, Hampden, CT; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters. New York, 1944: no. 497, as "shop (later member of the family)."

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Campagnola; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Covered with [not deciphered] paper; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Polidoro called Caravaggio 1498 - 1545 / fr. Sir Peter Lely's Coll; fr. Sir Peter Lely's Coll; by later hand in graphite: rough tracing of watermark

Markings

Sir Peter Lely [1618 - 1680] London (Lugt 2092)

Watermarks

three hills(?) in a circle with a Latin cross above


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