An army, with trumpeters and standard-bearers in the van, crossing a river by pontoon bridge
Drawing
ca. 1522-1595 (drawn)
ca. 1522-1595 (drawn)
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Pen and ink over black chalk drawing depicting an army with trumpeters and standard-bearers, crossing a river by pontoon bridge. Squared in black chalk.
Object details
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| Title | An army, with trumpeters and standard-bearers in the van, crossing a river by pontoon bridge (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over black chalk; squared in black chalk |
| Brief description | Drawing, An army, with trumpeters and standard-bearers in the van, crossing a river by a pontoon bridge, by Bernadino Campi, Italian School, pen and ink over black chalk, 16th century. |
| Physical description | Pen and ink over black chalk drawing depicting an army with trumpeters and standard-bearers, crossing a river by pontoon bridge. Squared in black chalk. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | Provenance: Given by Miss Georgiana Lornlin 1880 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Ward Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings. Volume One: 14th - 16th century, London, 1979, cat. 115, p. 56, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
CAMPI, BERNARDINO
(c. 1522-1590/95)
115
An army, with trumpeters and standard-bearers in the van, crossing a river by a pontoon bridge
Pen and ink over black chalk; squared in black chalk
12 x 9 3/4 (305 x 248) 8644.F
PROVENANCE Given by Miss Georgiana Lornlin 1880
LITERATURE Byam Shaw, Christ Church Drawings, no. 1123 (a similar sheet of studies by the same hand, under Carlo Urbino)
Formerly ascribed, unconvincingly to Antonio Tempesta. As Philip Pouncey has abserved, the style recalls certain drawings by Bernardino Campi such as Popham, Windsor, nos. 184 and 185, which are not entirely typical and yet are definitely by him, the former being signed and the latter being a study for a painting by him in S. Sigismondo, Cremona. Our drawing, Pouncey goes on to observe, also resembles in style a group of three studies for the altarpiece of Christ Church, Oxford (J. Byam Shaw, loc. cit. no 1124, under Urbino); and the third in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Parker, Ashmolean Catalogue, no. 136 under Bernardino Campi). From the resemblance to these three drawings is by Carlo Urbino. But the three drawings seem markedly superior to those feeble essays in Bernardino Campi's style which are inscribed with Urbino's name in an old hand. (Albertina, Kutschera Bequest, 4, no. 27; Louvre 10845; Berlin-Dahlem 22791). It therefore appears likely that Urbino, in executing the Milan altarpiece, made use of studies by his master; and that our drawing is by his master too. |
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| Accession number | 8644F |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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