The Descent from the Cross, 1572

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 27.2 x 24.2 cm (10 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 27.5 x 24.3 cm (10 13/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 8, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2006.162.17

Artists / Makers

Orazio de Santis (artist) Italian, active 1568 - 1584

Pompeo Cesura (artist after) Italian, died 1571

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Pompeo Aglano inventor / Horat. d. s. Agl. fec. 1572; by later hand, center verso in red chalk: 4; by later hand, across lower verso in graphite: N. P36615 fine impression

Provenance

Jean Boman? (Lugt 1417). (Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 15, 1976; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Mulder, Frederick, Mr.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.