Charity

17th century

Luca Cambiaso

Artist, Genoese, 1527 - 1585

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.5 x 26.5 cm (14 x 10 7/16 in.)
    mount: 43.4 x 34.2 cm (17 1/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. [1868-1953], Princeton, New Jersey (Lugt 1853a); (Lucien Goldschmidt, New York, by 1961); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1961; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, and elsewhere. Princeton, 1991, 44-45, no. 13 (as Luca Cambiaso)(entry by Frederick A. den Broeder).

Bibliography

1991

  • Den Broeder, Frederick A. Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. Exh. cat. The Art Museum, Princeton University and elsewhere. Princeton, 1991.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 179 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center in pen and brown ink: Delcangiaiso.no; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 206

Wikidata ID

Q64562104

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