Currently not on view
The Rape of Persephone
after Luca Cambiaso, 1527–1585; born Genoa, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-1256
Information
Title
The Rape of Persephone
Maker
after Luca Cambiaso
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 36.3 x 47.7 cm (14 5/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
mount: 40.7 x 53 cm (16 x 20 7/8 in.)
frame: 62.2 x 77.5 cm (24 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-1256
Culture
Type
Materials
Theobald; Meatyard.;
Handwritten note: “Bought at Meatyard in 1934.”;
- Piero Torriti, Luca Cambiaso: disegni, (Genova: SAGEP, 1966)., pl. 11
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 52-53, no. 144 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Lauro Magnani, Luca Cambiaso da Genova all’Escorial, (Genova: Sagep, 1995)., 120n
- Jonathan Bober, Luca Cambiaso 1527-1585, (Milano: Silvana, 2006)., pp. 133-135, fig. 2; p. 147, no. 7 (verso)