The Pietà

early 17th century

Venetian 17th Century

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.3 x 14 cm (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.70.19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

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).

2024

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 71n4.

Inscriptions

extensive inscriptions in Latin in 16th century hand, recto/verso in pen and brown ink: [not deciphered]; by later hand on mat, lower right in graphite: ITAL. SCHOL, 16th / Pietà / Mc1073

Watermarks

undeciphered

Wikidata ID

Q64633479

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