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Description: Laid down. 
Verso: Cloelia Leading Her Fellow-prisoners Out of Porsena´s Captivity: Pen and brown ink.
Inscribed verso in pen and brown ink on the mount at lower left: "Letantio Gambara", at lower right: "Cabinet de Crozat".

Provenance: Crozat (Mariette, no 640, mentioned) ; C.G. Tessin (List 1739-41, p. 48r. ; J.-G. Sack ; E. Perseus, G. von Rosen ; C.U. Palm ; G.W. Lundberg 

The iconographic interpretation of the verso scene derives from Mariette´s catalogue, where the drawing is ascribed to Gambara. Philip Pouncey is more in favour of Romanino, while Ballarin is inclined to accept the old attribution, seeing his as a youthful work from the time when Gambara was still influenced by Romanino.

Agreeing with Ballarin, Ruggeri refers to three sheets of putti fighting snakes, in Tosio Martinengo, Brescia, in the Uffizi, Florence and in the Ashmolean, Oxford. The latter two had a traditional attribution to Giulio Campi but Parker ascribes them to Altobello Melone and this was accepted by M.Gregori. M.L. Ferrari, however, ascribes them to Gambara and G.Panazza sees this artist´s hand in the first sheet. 

The influence of Romanino is particularly marked in the standing figure recto - the drawing is assured and done in sweeping freedom - but Gambara´s characteristic weaknesses are to be seen in the hands and in the resemblance of the face to a death´s-head.

The verso group seems to be more charasteristic of Gambara´s way of working with a decorative use of line to compete with a decoratie use of line to compete with the plastic structure of the composition. Here, too, the representation of hands is clearly weak.
[Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat.no. 236]

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Titel (sv): Cloelia leder sina medfångar ut ur Porsenas fångenskap, verso stående man
Titel (en): Cloelia Leading Her Fellow-prisoners Out of Porsena´s Captivity / Standing man

Title (sv): Cloelia leder sina medfångar ut ur Porsenas fångenskap, verso stående man
Title (en): Cloelia Leading Her Fellow-prisoners Out of Porsena´s Captivity / Standing man