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    Christ before Pilate
    Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci). Christ before Pilate, 1522/23. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00004490

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    Christ before Pilate

    by Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci)

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Pontormo"; upper left on former mount, in graphite: "circa 1670 / not Carracci"; upper center on former mount, in graphite: "Carracci"; lower center on former mount, in graphite: "Agos. Carracci"

    Provenance

    Private collection, England [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings of the 15th-18th Centuries," 1989-1990. New York, Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 3; also Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 10-July 22, 1997. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence," May 29-Sept. 5, 2005, pp. 212-14, cat. 71 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque", Mar. 26-July 8, 2012, cat. 11, pp. 42-43.

    Publications

    Laura M. Giles, "Christ before Pilate: A Major Composition Study by Pontormo," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (1991), pp. 34-35. Harriet K. Stratis, "The Technical Aspects of Pontormo’s Christ before Pilate," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (1991), pp. 46, and 49-50 (ill.). Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Paris, 1994), pp. 11, 54, 60-61, and 175-76, fig. 45. Alessandro Conti, Pontormo (Milan, 1995), pp. 33-34, and 78, pl. 33, as Closing the Gates of the Temple of Janus. 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. 197-98, no. 255 (ill.). "Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 16-17, no. 2 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jacopo Carucci, called Jacopo da Pontormo / Italian, 1494-1557
    Date
    1522/23
    Medium
    Black chalk, with stumping, and traces of red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    27.4 × 28.3 cm (10 13/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle (Meers) Bent, The Regenstein Foundation, and Dr. William D. Shorey
    Accession no.
    1989.187

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