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About the Artwork
Domenico Campagnola helped to establish a specialized collector’s market for landscape drawings, building upon the legacy of his father, Giulio Campagnola, and Titian. Like Titian, Domenico’s works emphasize God’s power as expressed through the natural world. Hermit Saint Jerome, at lower left, sits in spiritual contemplation within a dynamic landscape rendered with Domenico’s distinctive linear style, complete with rustic houses, humble tree groves, and grand distant vistas. Independent drawings (drawings made as works of art in and of themselves) were a new category of drawing advanced by Domenico and others.
Inscriptions
RECTO OF MOUNT, lower left, in graphite: 61 [6 crossed out, 1 underlined] / 236 [underlined] ; lower center, in graphite: Titian [inscribed in a cartouche] ; lower center, in graphite: 3 ; lower right, in graphite: 8930 [erased] ; lower right, in graphite: [illegible]/q
Provenance
Sir George Donaldson (d. 1925) (according to Agnew). ?–1929: (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH July 31, 1929–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-April 28, 1937). Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941). Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964). Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968). Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987). Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500–1564)
- Date
- c. 1530
- Medium
- pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.5 x 36.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.); Secondary Support: 31.3 x 43.3 cm (12 5/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1929.557
More by Domenico Campagnola in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000314
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