The Lamentation of Christ (recto and verso)

Exhibition history

New York, W. M. Brady and Co., Old Master Drawings, Oil Sketches, and Sculpture, 1520–1900, 2018, cat. 1 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 20-21, cat. 1, p. 130, GC 3, pp. 102-103, fig. 1.2, 1.3., traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.

Publications

Florian Härb in Old Master Drawings, Oil Sketches, and Sculpture 1520–1900, online publication, W. M. Brady & Co., New York, Jan. 30–Feb. 15, 2018, cat.1 (ill. recto and verso).

Quick Overview

Artist: Polidoro da Caravaggio / Italian, c. 1499–c. 1543
Date: 1527/35
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with small splatters of opaque green, gray and pink paint, with touches of white gouache (recto) and pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash (verso) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 17.5 × 23.7 cm (6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: pen and ink drawings
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Accession no.: 2019.837

Provenance

Unknown collector, Italy, probably seventeenth-century [signature gray-blue window mount]. Sir Jonathan Richardson Sr. (1665–1745), London [stamp (Lugt 2184) recto, lower center, in black; inscribed (Lugt 2983), verso of mount, upper center, in pen and brown ink: BB.50. / Jk 63. / H]. Private collection, France. Sold by W. M. Brady and Co., New York, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Dec. 1, 2017; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.