Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)

ZOLTÁN KÁRPÁTI: A Late Drawing by Domenico Campagnola

41 CIRCLE OF DOMENICO CAMPAGNOLA, CHRIST AND ST PETER WALKING ON WATER. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS The author of the catalogue entry justified his point of view with the more detailed, mechanical handling of the Budapest sheet, w

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hich diverged from the vigorous sketch of the well-known sheet of the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, Campagnola's often published, par excellence late drawing of Christ and St Peter Walking on Water (fig. 40).

K Nevertheless, both drawings have all the hallmarks of an autograph sheet from the artist's later period. With their rapidly flowing lines, as opposed to his early, scrupulously executed drawings, and their slightly undulating, dissolved contours, their spatiality merely suggested, and modelled with roughly parallel hatching, the differences between the Chatsworth and the Budapest drawings lie not in their drawing manner, but rather in their degree of elaboration. While the former is a vigorous sketch drawn with quick strokes, the latter is executed in more painstaking detail. The disparate character of original and copy can be well illustrated if we compare the Chatsworth sheet with the drawing from the Budapest collection that was previously questioningly attributed to Campagnola, Christ and St Peter Walking on Water (fig. 41).

9 Here, in spite of the common subject matter and similar composition, the