Rape of Proserpina
circa 1562-63
16th century
36.8 cm x 47.2 cm (14 1/2 in. x 18 9/16 in.)
Luca Cambiaso
(Moneglia, Italy, 1527 - 1585, El Escorial, Spain)
Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and iron gall ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.970
This drawing is related to the Saint Sebastian in scale, complex space, calligraphic charge, and autonomous function. Its mythological subject and format, how-ever, correspond to the sort of scene Cambiaso and Bergamasco were contemporaneously introducing to the decoration of Genoese palaces. The sheet is further distinguished by its exceptional freshness, without any deterioration of the black-brown, iron gall ink favored by the artist or any fading of its sweeping washes
Possibly an autographed replica (Jonathan Bober 5/13/11)