Excerpted from Davis, Bruce. Master Drawings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997, 30.
The composition of the museum’s sketch is similar in its dramatic and choreographic grace to another, larger version of the subject by Cambiaso in the collection of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert Manning.[1] They considered their drawing to be an early work by the artist, to about 1555–60, and the museum’s sheet probably dates from the same period. Both drawings are similar in conception to an altarpiece of the subject from 1561 by another Genoese painter, Giovanni Battista Castello (Il Bergamesco).[2]
Notes:
[1.] Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: I. The Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965), no. 120.
[2.] For a related drawing by Castello formerly attributed to Cambiaso, see Lawrence Turcic, “Review: Le dessin à Gênes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle,” Master Drawings 23–24, no. 2 (1986): 244, pl. 54a.
