Landscape with a Boy Fishing

c. 1516

Domenico Campagnola

Artist, Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink over leadpoint on laid eighteenth-century (Mariette) mount

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.3 × 24.7 cm (6 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
    support: 18.8 x 27.1 cm (7 3/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.20.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Mariette [1694-1774] (Lugt 1852), Paris; (sale, Basan, Paris, 15 November 1775 and following days, under no. 256); A. Bourduge [c. 1800] (Lugt 70); (sale, Paris, 23 May 1815); Josef Carl von Klinkosch [1822-1888] (Lugt 577), Vienna; Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein [1840-1929], Vienna; Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein [1853-1938]; Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein [1906-1989] (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA;[1] given to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1948

  • Seventy Master Drawings, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1948-1949, no. 24.

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection, An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1950, no. 61, repro.

  • Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 36, repro.

1953

  • Landscape Drawings & Water-colors: Bruegel to Cézanne, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953, no. 10.

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.

1955

  • Master Drawings, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1962

  • Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat.

1963

  • Youthful Works by Great Artists, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, 1963, no. 5, repro.

1966

  • Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1967

  • Le Cabinet d'un Grand Amateur P.-J. Mariette: 1694-1774; Dessins du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1967, no. 20, repro.

1969

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969-1970, no cat.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 42.

1988

  • The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988-1989, no. 34, fig. 26.

2006

  • The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006, unnumbered brochure, repro.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 12.

Bibliography

1775

  • Basan, F. Catalogue raisonné Mariette. Paris, 1775: 44, no. 256.

1906

  • Schönbrunner, Josef, and Meder, Josef. Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen. 8th vol. Vienna, 1906-1908: no. 955.

1907

  • Hadeln, Detlev von, "Domenico Campagnola." In Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker, eds. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 5(1911):450.

1936

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. "Tizian-Studien." Sonderdruch aus dem Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 10 (1936): 72, fig. 150.

1939

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. "Domenico Campagnola's Grapic Art," The Print Collector's Quarterly 26, 1939: 329.

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 123, 132, no. 567.

1958

  • Chennevières, Ph. de, and Montaiglon, A. de, eds. Abecedario de P. J. Mariette et autres notes inédites de cet amateur. 5th vol., Paris, 1858-1859: 339 (as Titian).1906

1973

  • Levenson, Jay A., Oberhuber, Konrad, and Sheehan, Jacquelyn L. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1973: 415-416, fig. 2-3.

1978

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Alcune proposte per il catalogo dei disegni di Domenico Campagnola," Arte Veneta 32 (1978): 107-108.

1982

  • Saccomani, Elisabetta. "Domenico Campagnola disegnatore di "paesi": dagli esordi alla prima maturità," Arte Veneta 36, 1982: 82, 86-87, 95 note 26, 96 note 44.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 664, no. 1053, color repro.

1987

  • Wethey, Harold E. Titian and His Drawings, with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries. Princeton, 1987: 183-184, no. A-10, fig. 177.

2001

  • Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 58, 213, note 76.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, upper center: .DO. / Campagnola.; in later hand, lower center verso: L8 1/4; lower left verso: Tie[ra?]n / du CabtBorduge; lower center verso: No 1360.D; lower right verso: Campagnola

Wikidata ID

Q64541058

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