Landscape with Shepherds Driving Away a Wolf

c. 1540

Domenico Campagnola

Associated Names
Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

The image shows a landscape with a high horizon line, featuring distant hills on the left side with a castle and a church with a spire on the right side. Pen-and-ink strokes are intricately detailed, depicting trees and the flowing lines of the landscape. The color scheme is monochromatic with shades of brown and sepia. A group of figures, potentially hunters with dogs, are depicted in motion on the foreground terrain. Beyond them are trees, hills, and architectural structures on higher ground.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with touches of pale green wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.5 x 36.7 cm (8 7/8 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1954.12.222

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)(Lugt 2093); (William H. Schab, New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, 1953; gift to NGA in 1954.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 43.

Bibliography

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 130, no. 521.

1987

  • Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings, with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 188-189, no. A-20, fig. 178.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, lower right in brown ink: Campagnole

Wikidata ID

Q64541059

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