Skip to main content
Military Procession in a Panoramic Landscape
Military Procession in a Panoramic Landscape

Military Procession in a Panoramic Landscape

Former TitleMilitary Procession through a Hamlet
Artist Remigio Cantagallina (Italian, 1582 - 1656)
Date17th century
MediumBrown ink and wash over black wash
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (16.51 x 39.37 cm)
Framed: 17 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 1 inches (44.45 x 67.31 x 2.54 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy
Object number81-30/14
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 19, as Military Procession in a Panoramic Landcsape.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Military Procession in a Panoramic Landcsape.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 18, 2013-June 15, 2014, no cat., as Military Procession in a Panoramic Landcsape.

Gallery Label
This drawing of a military procession reminds us that the 17th century was still a period of continual strife in Europe, where every community needed to be able to protect itself at short notice. This village landscape is typical of the hills around Florence, and the composition is given added interest by the wall in shadow in the foreground, from which the two figures look down on the parade below.
Provenance

Duke of Argyll [?], Charles Rogers [?];

William Esdaile (1758-1837), London. by 1837;

Possibly his sale, The Very Important Collection of the Late William Esdaile, Esq., Part III: Comprising Drawings by Italian, German, Flemish, and Dutch Masters, Christie and Manson, London, June 18-25, 1840, lot 156, as Two landscapes, in pen; from the Duke of Argyll’s and C. Rogers’s Collections;

Henry Wellesley (1791-1866), Oxford, United Kingdom, by 1866;

His sale, The Memorable Cabinet of Drawings by the Old Masters and Collection of Engravings, formed with Profound Taste and Judgment by the Late Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, London, June 25-July 10, 1866, lot 954, erroneously as by Jacopo Ligozzi, as A Portfolio with leaves, containing 105 Drawings in Pen and Sepia, Views in Tuscany;

Sir David Kelly (1891-1959), London;

His sale, Hodgson’s, London, November 26, 1954, lot 596, erroneously as by Jacopo Ligozzi, as Vedute di Toscana;

With H.M. Calmann, London, by 1955-September 23, 1959;

Purchased from Calmann by Milton W. McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 23, 1959-1980 [1];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] H. M. Calmann invoice, September 23, 1959, MS007 Milton McGreevy Papers, NAMA Archives.

Published References

Possibly Catalogue of the Very Important Collection of the Late William Esdaile, Esq., Part III: Comprising Drawings by Italian, German, Flemish, and Dutch Masters (London: Christie and Manson, June 18-25, 1840), 13, as Two landscapes, in pen; from the Duke of Argyll’s and C. Rogers’s Collections.

Catalogue of the Memorable Cabinet of Drawings by the Old Masters and Collection of Engravings, formed with Profound Taste and Judgment by the Late Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, June 25-July 10, 1866), 64, erroneously as by Jacopo Ligozzi, as A Portfolio with leaves, containing 105 Drawings in Pen and Sepia, Views in Tuscany.

Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 82-83, (repro.), as Military Procession in a Panoramic Landscape.

Information about a particular artwork or image, including provenance information, is based upon historic information and may not be currently accurate or complete. Research on artwork and images is an ongoing process, and the information about a particular artwork or image may not reflect the most current information available to the Museum. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about a particular artwork or image, please e-mail provenance@nelson-atkins.org.


Tuscan Farmhouse
Remigio Cantagallina
ca. 1630-1650
64-35
Ulysses Before Troy
Pellegrino Tibaldi
ca. 1550
33-63
Vase of Flowers
Jan van Huysum
mid-18th century
81-30/35
Title Page to the Punchinello Series
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
ca. 1800
32-193/9
Study for "The Triumph of Bacchus"
Nicolas Poussin
1635
54-83
Head of a Bearded Man in Exotic Costume
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
ca. 1760
32-193/18
Diana Huntress
Hans von Achen
81-30/2
The Pantheon, Rome
Lieven Cruyl
ca. 1667
50-52