Live Auction 5979Old Master, 19th Century and British Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 519

Giulio Campi (Cremona 1502-1573)

A putto carrying a basket of fruit

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 5,250

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Giulio Campi (Cremona 1502-1573)
A putto carrying a basket of fruit
with inscription 'Parmigiano'
red chalk, heightened with white (partially oxidized), squared in black chalk
7 x 4 in. (17.8 x 10.2 cm.), unframed

with Trinity Fine Art, Paris, Salon du Dessin, Dessins Anciens de l'Ecole Lombarde, 2001, no. 7.

Specialist note

A preparatory study for Campi's frescoes in S. Sigismondo, Cremona. A putto in the same pose appears in the decorative border beside the fresco depicting Saint Augustine, on the right-hand side of the transept (B. Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance, London, 1967-8, III, 'Central Italian and North Italian Schools', fig. 1953).