About the Artwork
Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas
ca. 1558
Domenico Campagnola
1500-1564
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 14 × 19 inches (35.6 × 48.3 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund
38.74
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper right: Tizian Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left in an xviii century hand: c. di Tiziano Inscribed, in pencil, upper left, verso: 20 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper center, verso: Lenana nr: 200 Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, center, verso: S. T. no. 4
Watermark: [indecipherable]
Provenance
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Andrews, Keith. "Recent Acquisitions at the National Gallery of Scotland." Master Drawings 5 (1967): p. 380, no. 3 (pl. 4).
Catalogue of Italian Drawings. Cat., National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh,1968, vol. 1: p. 27, D4911.
Feinblatt, Ebria. Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1976, no. 46.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 38-39, no. 6, p. 18 (pl. ii).
Pignatti, Terisio. Venetian Drawings from American Collectors. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Kimbell Art Museum. Washington, D.C. and Fort Worth, 1990, p. 38, no. 9.
Tietze Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of Venetian Painters in the XV and XVI Centuries. New York, 1944, p. 126, no. 455 (pl. LXXXI) no. 3.
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, p. 127, cat. 105 (ill.).
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Domenico Campagnola, Callisto's Transformation into a Bear after Giving Birth to Arcas, ca. 1558, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 38.74.
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