?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 16,000
FROM THE GELLATLY COLLECTIONGIULIO CAMPAGNOLA The Old Shepherd<>.
Engraving and dotted work, circa 1507. 80x137 mm; 3 1/8x5 1/2 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2). Ex-collection Peter Gellatly (Lugt 1185, verso), then his sale at Gutekunst & Klipstein, May, 1911, lot 259. A good impression of this extremely scarce print, bearing a smoky, atmospheric appearance.
In the seminal exhibiton and related catalogue of early Italian engravings organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the authors place the current work among Campagnola's early prints, most of which were derived from designs by Giorgione and Titian and imitate the painterly effects of sfumato<> and shading by a pattern of delicately engraved dots and flicks in the plate. The impression of The Old Shepherd<> reproduced in the Illustrated Bartsch<>, p. 480, from the Graphische Sammlung, Munich, is very similar in its hazy quality to the current print while the impression reproduced in the early Italian engraving catalogue, p. 394, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, albeit a darker impression, exhibits the same soft, smoky qualities. That Campagnola was influenced closely by the work of Titian (as well as Giorgione), is manifest in a drawing with an almost identical landscape attributed to Titian in the Louvre (Tietze, Drawings<>, no. 580, Inv. 5539) which the engraver may have known and even worked from as a model for the current print. Campagnola's success as an artist might be gauged by the popularity of this engraving, copied at least 3 times by various printmakers already by the early 16th-century. Hind 8; Illustrated Bartsch 8.010; Levenson/Oberhuber/Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art<>, Washington, DC, 1973, pp. 393-94, fig. 19-3.
