LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black chalk, point of the brush and watercolor, pen and brown ink

Measurements:

11.54 in. (29.30 cm.) (height) by 7.24 in. (18.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription 'Campagnola' (crossed out) (on the verso of the old mount from which the drawing has been removed)

Exhibited:

Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 6 (catalogue by Julien Stock).

Literature:

T. Borenius, 'Two drawings from the Circle of Bartolomeo Montagna', Old Master Drawings, VI, September 1931, pp. 19-21, pl. 17 (as Montagna?). L. Puppi, Bartolomeo Montagna, Venice, 1962, p. 132 (as probably a contemporary copy of the fresco). G. Peretti, Gli affreschi, in S. Marinelli, ed. Il restauro della cappella di San Biagio ai Santi Nazaro e Celso a Verona, Verona, 2001, pp. 100-115, ill. M. Lucco et al., Bartolomeo Cincani, detto Montagna. Dipinti, Vicenza, 2014, p. 355 (as a copy).

Provenance:

Mary Angela Mayne Weld-Blundell, later Mrs Alfred Noyes, in 1931. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2006, lot 40. with Jean-Luc Baroni, London (cat. 2006, no. 1), where acquired by the present owner.