Studies for Christ Before Caiaphas

1608/1609

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone

Associated Names
Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Morazzone

Artist, Lombard, 1573 - 1626

This is a drawing of figures in various poses. It features sketches of individuals in different stances and activities, including a seated figure, a figure with a cloak, and others in dynamic poses with outstretched arms. The sketch is done in a classic style, likely with charcoal or graphite, providing strong contrasts and gentle shading to give depth and form to the figures. The style and depiction suggest studies or preparatory sketches for a larger work, possibly capturing movement and the human form in a timeless, classical manner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white gouache on gray-green laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Andrea Woodner

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.4 × 38.5 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
    mount: 34.5 × 47.8 cm (13 9/16 × 18 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2021.3.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Giulio Litta-Visconti-Arese Umberto Osio [1891-1967], Milan. (Christie’s, London, 25 March 1969, lot 102]; (via Hans Calmann to) Robert Landolt (his sale, Christie's London, 7 December 2020); purchased for NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Sammlung Robert Landholt, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zurich, 2013 - 2014, no. 30 (entry by M. Matile)

Bibliography

1969

  • Herbert, John. Christie's Review of the Year: 1969. London, 1969: 67.

1974

  • Ward Neilson, Nancy. "Review of Giulio Bora, Il Seicento lombardo. Catalogo dei disegni, libri, stampe" Master Drawings 12 (1974): 59.

2003

  • Stoppa, Jacopo. Il Morazzone. Milan, 2003: 195

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): 77, fig. 10.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in brown ink: Morazone 36; upper right in brown ink: 6; by later hand, center verso in brown ink: I.30

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