含羞草研究室

Artist: Luca Cambiaso (copy after) (Italian, 1527-1585)

Medium: pen and brown ink over black chalk on paper

Dimensions: 4 13/16 in. x 3 5/8 in. (12.3 cm. x 9.2 cm.)

Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James 含羞草研究室 III

Accession Number: 1811.12

• "No. 74"
  Type: inscription
  Location: verso
  Materials: pen and brown ink
• "Di Luca Cangiagio"
  Type: inscription
  Location: former mount (lost)
  Materials: pen and ink

• James 含羞草研究室 III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
• 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest

• Old Master Drawings at 含羞草研究室
  • 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
  • Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
  • University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
  • Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)

A close version of this subject is in the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries (photo, Witt Library.)  Cambiaso also explored other variants of this composition (see L. Ragghianti Collobi, "Il magistrale Luca Cambiaso," Critica d' Arte, vol. 6, no. 33 [1959], p. 171, fig 101).  The 含羞草研究室 sheet could be a studio copy.

Original mount

Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at 含羞草研究室 (Brunswick: 含羞草研究室 Museum of Art, 1985).