Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Workshop of Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia 1527-1585 Madrid)
Lot 34

Workshop of Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia 1527-1585 Madrid)

Christ taken prisoner

Closed8 December 2020

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GBP 2,000

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Workshop of Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia 1527-1585 Madrid)
Christ taken prisoner
with inscription ‘Lucas/ Can[...]’ (?) (verso)
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, lower corners made up
8 7/8 x 12 1/8 in. (22.4 x 30.9 cm)

Unidentified collector's mark RSH (not in Lugt).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 24 June 1983, lot 36, where acquried by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Cambiaso treated the Arrest of Christ numerous times in his drawings including three in the Uffizi, Florence (see B. Suida Manning and W. Suida, Luca Cambiaso: la vita e le opere, Milan, 1958, p. 185, figs. 240-242).

We are grateful to Jonathan Bober for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.