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The Entombment of Christ
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1665-1745), London [Lugt 2170]. Sir Charles W. A. Oakeley (1825-1915), Tunbridge Wells, Kent, [inscription]; sold, Sotheby's, London, February 13, 1896, Oakeley Sale, lot 32, to Walker. W. Maxwell Bolton, Larchfield, Cheshire; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1964, lot 23, to Yvonne French. Mr. and Mrs. Hans M. Calmann, (1899-1982) London. Sold by John and Paul Herring and Company, Inc., New York, to the Art Institute, 1983.
Exhibition history
Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci," exh. cat. by Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, pp. 63-64, cat. 40, ill. (as Barocci). Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, "Italiaanse Tekeningen Il de 15de en 16de Eeuw," exh. cat. by L. C. J. Frerichs, 1981. 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. 30-31, cat. 4 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago." April 10-July 22, 1997.
Publications
Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, vol. 9/7 (Milan, 1934). Alfredo Puerari, Raccolte artistiche: Catalogo Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona (Cremona, 1976). Lieneke C. J. Frerichs, "Twee grote werktekeningen van Federico Barocci, verworven voor het Rijksmuseum," Bulletin Van Het Rijksmuseum (1978), pp. 3-10. Brunella Teodori, "Aspetti del baroccismo perugino: Benedetto Bandiera, Felice e Vincenzo Pellegrini," Arte e Musica in Umbria tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Atti del XII Convegno di Studi Umbri. Gubbio - Gualdo Tadino, 30 November-2 December 1979 (Gubbio, 1981), pp. 275-99. Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Christie, Manson and Woods, London 1984. Diane De Grazia, "Refinement and Progression of Barocci's Entombment: The Chicago Modello," The Art Institute of Chicaogo Museum Studies 12 (1985), pp. 31-42. Diane De Grazia, 'Refinement and Progression of Barocci's Entombment: The Chicago Modello,' The Art Institute Museum Studies 12 (1985): 31-42. Marco Tanzi, "Qualche aggiunta al Malosso e alla sua cerchia," Prospettiva (1985), pp. 82-85. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 'Barocci at Bologna and Florence,' Master Drawings, 14, no. 1, (1986), pp. 56-64. Anna Fucili Bartolucci, "La Scuola Baroccesca, Claudio Ridolfi e i suoi epigoni," Arte e Cultura nella Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino dalle origini a oggi, ed. by Franco Battistelli (Venice, 1986). George R. Goldner, Lee Hendrix and Gloria Williams, European Drawings 1: Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California, 1988). 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. 17-18, no. 16 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Federico Barocci (Italian, c. 1535-1612) / or follower
- Date
- 1579/93
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with touches of graphite and a later (?) addition of gray wash to head of Christ, on buff laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down on cream laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 48.5 × 34.2 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Anonymous gift
- Accession no.
- 1983.8
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