Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Giulio Campi
The Madonna and Child surrounded by Angels
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giulio Campi
(Cremona circa 1505 - 1572)
The Madonna and Child surrounded by Angels
Red chalk within partial red chalk framing lines, squared for transfer in black chalk;
bears attribution in pencil on the backing, verso: Parmigianino
154 by 108 mm; 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼ in.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), London (L.2364);
Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784), London (L.2793);
Jean-François Gigoux (1806-1894), Paris (L.1164)
Previously unattributed, the present sheet is characteristic of Giulio Campi's style. Though not apparently connected to any surviving works by the Cremonese artist, it can be compared to other studies of the Virgin and Child related to the upper part of the main altarpiece, dated 1539, of San Sigismondo, Cremona.1
Especially interesting is the close stylistic relation with the red chalk study of the Madonna and Child, sold in these Rooms in 2011,2 and with the black chalk drawing of the same subject, formerly in the collection of John Gere.3
1 Agostino Allegri and Giovanni Renzi have kindly pointed out the similarities with the work of Giulio Campi for the altarpiece in San Sigismondo
2 Sale, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2011, lot 509
3 London, British Museum, inv. no. 1978,1007.1; for other drawings related to this same project, see: M. Di Giampaolo, 'Giulio Campi: ancora due disegni per San Sigismondo', Prospettiva, 8, 1977, pp. 54-56