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Object Type
Museum number: 1895,0915.816
Description: Four musicians seated in a landscape; an open music score on the ground before them, a tree at left and sculptural figures on a monument at right Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Producer name: Drawn by: Domenico Campagnola; Formerly attributed to: Titian
School/style
Production date: 1511-1562 (fl. circa)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 146 millimetres; Width: 228 millimetres
Curator's comments: Sold as Titian in Wellesley sale and catalogued as such by Robinson in the Malcolm catalogue. According to the annotated copy of the catalogue in the Department it was Morelli who first suggested that this was by Campagnola rather than Titian. Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no.369 (as Titian); G. Morelli (I. Lermolieff), 'Kunstkritische Studien über Italienische Malerei. Die Galerie zu München und Dresden', Leipzig, 1891, p. 376, n. 2 (as Campagnola)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (by descent to his son Comte Carrière); Previous owner/ex-collection: Carrière (L.474); Previous owner/ex-collection: Richard Cosway (according to Malcolm catalogue); Previous owner/ex-collection: Dr Rev Henry Wellesley (Sotheby, 10.vii.1866/2405 as Titian 'THE CONCERT. Four musicians seated, in the centre of the composition; trees to the right; a monument to the left in pen' £6-6-0 bt Whitehead); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Malcolm of Poltalloch
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.816

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