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Landscape with Abraham and Isaac on their way to the Sacrifice

Maker

Follower of
(artist)
1500-1564

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1517

Medium

pen and ink (brown) on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 18.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4085

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Campagnola, whose reputation rests primarily on his activity as a printmaker, was a skilled and innovative practitioner of woodcut. The heavy lines and emphatic crosshatching suggest that this forest scene, believed to depict the biblical sacrifice of Isaac, is a drawing made by a later follower after one of his woodcuts. Lely was an avid collector of prints as well as drawings, and drawings such as this would probably have held a particular interest for him.

Provenance

Peter Lely, London (1618-1680), L.2093; possibly Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, Paris (1803-1860); unidentified collector, L.2925; J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - Peter Lely - The Draughtsman and his Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/09/2012-13/01/2013

Literature

Nickel, Tobias Benjamin, Die Landschaftszeichnungen von Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564), PhD Thesis, University of Vienna 2017
vol. I, pp. 60-61; vol. II, pp. 28n5, 47
pl. 43

Saccomani, Elisabetta, 'Un disegno inedito di Domenico Campagnola' in 'Scritti di amici. Per Maria Cionini Visani', 1977 - pp. 72-75
pp. 72-75

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: unable to check drawing sheet due to thick backing sheet. Backing sheet: centre (visible only in raking light): small Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Lodovick Carats / fe. //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Peter Lely (L.2093)

Collector's mark: unidentified collector's mark (L.2925)

Inscription: D.C

Inscription: Collection Marbs PL Sir Peter Lely RA. / 1617 1680 / DC Alexander Decamps / 1803 1860 / [sketch of L.2925] unknown to Fagan / N658 //

Inscription: 6. 16

Inscription: #2

Inscription: open

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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