ID 1250818
Lot 42 | GIULIO CAMPAGNOLA (CIRCA 1482-1516) AND DOMENICO CAMPAGNOLA (CIRCA 1500-1564)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Shepherds in a Landscape
engraving
circa 1515-1518
on laid paper, without watermark
a very fine, luminous impression of this important engraving, very rare
printing with great clarity and contrasts, a light tone and inky plate edges
with margins above and below, skilfully re-margined at left and right
otherwise in good condition
Plate 136 x 258 mm.
Sheet 149 x 275 mm.
Provenance
Unidentified, inscribed with the number 131 in brown ink verso (not in Lugt).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (their stocknumber C. 28914 in pencil verso).
Walter Feilchenfeldt (1894-1953), Berlin & Zürich (not in Lugt); then by descent to his wife Marianne Breslauer-Feilchenfeldt (1909-2001).
Christie's, London, 27 June 1984, lot 558 (t£ 21.600; to Papaharis).
With Linda Papaharis Inc., New York.
Sam Josefowitz (1921-2015), Lithuania, Switzerland, USA and England (Lugt 6094); acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 9; Hind 6
J. A. Levenson, K. Oberhuber, J. L. Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 150, p. 410-413 (another impression illustrated).
| Artist: | Giulio Campagnola (1482 - 1516) Domenico Campagnola (1500 - 1564) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Artist: | Giulio Campagnola (1482 - 1516) Domenico Campagnola (1500 - 1564) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Italy |
| Address of auction |
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