The Bearing of the Cross
c. 1569/1573
Artist, Veronese, c. 1524 - 1587
Publisher, Italian, active 1567 - 1573

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on two joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.6 × 65.3 cm (16 × 25 11/16 in.), trimmed within platemark
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Accession
2020.124.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch, no. 13, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Christie's London, 4 July 1979, no. 27). (P. & D. Colnaghi, London). Eric Stanley [1923 - 2018], Oxford; by descent. (Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels); purchased 2020 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 13, i/ii
Inscriptions
upper left in flag: SPQR; lower right in rock: Dominicus Campagnola inventor / Babtista fontana faciebat / Babtista mondella excudebat; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: proof before the dedication / in [not deciphered] of painter [not deciphered] / & Patmen's address 1584 / & Monte Calverio
Watermarks
ladder (not in Briquet)