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Christ before Pilate
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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