Christ Falling under the Cross

Francesco Salviati

Artist, Florentine, 1510 - 1563

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12.9 x 10.2 cm (5 1/16 x 4 in.)
    mount: 15.6 x 13.2 cm (6 1/8 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.93.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, by 1964); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1964; bequest to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1974, no. 13 (cat. by Edmund Pillsbury and John Caldwell).

1991

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph F. McCrindle. The Art Museum, Princeton University, and elsewhere. Princeton, 1991, 28-29, no. 5 (as Salviati)(entry by Frederick A. den Broeder).

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 182 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand on verso at lower right, in graphite, @27702; by later hand on mount at lower right, in graphite, 8 [circled]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64562086

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