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Landscape with a Harbor, Classical Ruins and, in the Foreground, a Man with Two Donkeys

Domenico Campagnola
approximately 1500-1564

Landscape with a Harbor, Classical Ruins and, in the Foreground, a Man with Two Donkeys

ca. 1545-1550
9 x 14 3/4 inches (230 x 374 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
IV, 65

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Description

Walker identified this as a Campagnola of the later career, and the Tietzes hesitated and associated it with Campagnola’s workshop, but Nickel accepts it as the master’s work, comparing it to drawings like one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 07.283.15), which he dates to the late 1540s.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, at bottom right corner, beneath lining, "Campagnola"; on mount, underneath drawing, in pen and light brown ink, with what seems to be a transcription of Richardson's pressmarks from now lost, Richardson mount; at upper left, "154"; at upper right, "65v (?) / L 50"; at upper center, "P 55 / I (or Y) 68 / Z"; on verso of lining, in graphite, "5"; also bottom center of mount, in graphite, "5".
Watermark: Open crown surmounted by a six-pointed star (cf. Briquet II, 4835. Prague, 1561; Lucca, 1565-66; Rome, 1567-68).
Associated names
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Walker 1941, 210; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat, 1944, 130, no. 520; Nickel 2017, cat. 234.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 65, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department