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The Entombment of Christ
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "35"; inscribed verso, upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink: "Auction Posonyi 1858 N 250"; upper center on mount, in pen and brown ink (in Posonyi hand): "N. 14 / Annibale Carracci"
Provenance
Marquis de Lagoy [stamp (Lugt 1710), recto, lower right, in black]. Dr. F. Pokorny [stamp (Lugt 2036), verso, lower left, in green]. A. Posonyi [script (Lugt 2040), verso, center and lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink]; sold, J. Wawra, Vienna, May 21, 1900. Unknown collector [unidentified stamp (R.U.F.), verso, lower left on mount, in green]. Lord Walston. Germain Seligman [stamp verso, lower right on mount, in blue]; sold by Jacques Seligman and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 7, pl. IV. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Venetian Drawings From American Collections," September 21, 1974-April 20, 1975; also traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum; and the Toledo Museum of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 32-33, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 155-57, no. 201 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane / Italian, c. 1548-1628
- Date
- 1595/1600
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with gold metallic paint, on blue laid paper, laid down on thin tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.3 × 14 cm (8 13/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- ink or chalk wash
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1962.376
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00002238
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