Christ Instructing Peter and John to Prepare for the Passover

1504

Vincenzo Civerchio

Painter, Lombard, c. 1460/1470 - probably 1544

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.8 x 19.5 cm (9 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
    framed: 32.4 x 28.6 x 4 cm (12 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.67

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly a monastery in Austria;[1] (Frederick Mont, Inc) and (A.S. Drey, London), by 1937;[2] sold 1947 as by Bramantino to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1]See letter dated 24 December 1947 in NGA curatorial files.
[2] Advertised in Burlington Magazine LXXI (1937), advertising supplement, pl. II.
[3] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/523.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1949

  • Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, loan exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, 1949, no. 12, as by Bramantino.

Bibliography

1951

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 86, no. 32, repro., as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 174, repro., as The Appartion of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 19, as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 12, repro., as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 18, fig. 35.

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:61, as by Bramantino, Christ appears to the Apostles.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 35, 647, as Attributed to Bramantino.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 44, repro., as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:88-89; 2:pl. 59, as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 100, no. 67, color repro., as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino c. 1500.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 66, repro., as The Apparition of Christ Among the Apostles by Bramantino.

1987

  • Marubbi, Mario. Vincenzo Civerchio: Contributo alla cultura figurativa cremasca nel primo Cinquecento. Milan, 1987:100-101, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20174897

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