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Venus Reclining in a Landscape

c. 1508–9

Giulio Campagnola

(Italian, 1482–1515)

Italy, late 15th-early 16th Century

Engraving

Platemark: 11.9 x 18.3 cm (4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 11.9 x 18.3 cm (4 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1931.205

Catalogue raisonné: Hind V(II).202.13 ; Passavant V.165.11 ; Le Blanc I.575.10 ; Ottley II.769.8

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101B Prints & Drawings

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This artist's training as a gem cutter prepared him well for the relatively new art of engraving, which required carving into a copperplate with a sharp instrument called a burin.

Description

The Venetian artist Giulio Campagnola introduced the "dot manner," an engraving technique by which shading is created with dots and flicks produced with the point of the burin. This innovation allowed for a much greater range of tone and subtler gradations from dark to light. The effect imitated sfumato, a painting technique for creating soft atmospheric effects practiced by Venetian artists, such as Giorgione, at the time. The influence of and perhaps even the engraver’s collaboration with Giorgione is reflected in the extraordinary beauty and refinement of this rare early impression of Venus Reclining in a Landscape. The female nude reclining in a landscape was to become a distinctly Venetian subject in the 1500s.

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Inscription

Watermark: two crossed arrows (similar to Briquet 6270)

Provenance

The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (duplicate)

1930

with C. G. Boerner, Leipzig

1931

with Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York

Citations

Meier, Henry, "Giulio Campagnola's 'Woman Reclining in a Landsacpe," and its Technique, Bulletin of the New York Public Library Vol. 46, No. 8 (August, 1942): 735-738. p. 735

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 622 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 93 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 93 archive.org

Levenson, Jay A., Konrad Oberhuber, and Jacquelyn L. Sheehan. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. 1973. pp. 398-399, fig. 19-10

Meiss, Millard. The Painter's Choice: Problems in the Interpretation of Renaissance Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. pp. 217, 233n30, fig. 225

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 105 archive.org

Cafritz, Robert, Lawrence Gowing, and David Rosand. Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape. Washington, D.C.: Phillips Collection in association with the National Gallery of Art, 1988. p. 74, fig. 76 (no. 26)

Russell, H. Diane, and Bernadine Ann Barnes. Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990. p. 139, fig. 80b

Lo Monaco, Louis. La gravure en taille-douce: art, histoire, technique. Paris: Arts et métiers graphiques/Flammarion, 1992. p. 31

Landau, David, and Peter W. Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. p. 263, fig. 268.

Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. p. 175, fig. 3.40

Rosand, David. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. pp. 205-206, fig. 188

Ballarin, Alessandro. Giorgione e l'umanesimo veneziano. Verona : Edizioni dell’Aurora, 2016. Reproduced and mentioned: pp. I: 214, 379; v: xxx, xxxii; tavv. v. (xii) 57, 63, 67, 78 I

Kren, Thomas, Jill Burke, and Stephen J. Campbell. The Renaissance Nude. Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 168-169, cat. 49

Exhibition history

Italian and German Prints of the 15th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29, 1933-January 3, 1934).

Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934).

Inaugural Exhibition of the New Print Gallery - Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-November 13, 1938).

The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

Prints 1400-1800. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 18, 1956-January 20, 1957); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 1-March 3, 1957); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (November 1-December 1, 1957).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).

Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-February 25, 1968).

Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).

Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987).

Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).

Early Italian Engraving: 1460's - 1530's. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 25-October 27, 2002).

Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

The Renaissance Nude: 1400-1530. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 30, 2018-January 27, 2019); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (February 28-June 2, 2019).

Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).

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