The Mocking of Christ

1568

Jacopo Bassano

Associated Names
Jacopo Bassano

Artist, Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592

The image depicts several figures in various positions, viewed from the waist up or in three-quarter view. One figure appears to be leaning forward, partially obscured by a column; their facial features are soft and not clearly defined, with long flowing hair. Other figures in the composition seem to be bending or kneeling, engaged in a dynamic scene. The attire visible includes draped garments with some having hues of red and green. No jewelry or objects are prominently displayed in their hands. The background is loosely defined, with architectural elements like columns and arches, rendered in soft, muted tones that blend with the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored chalks on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 41.3 × 52.5 cm (16 1/4 × 20 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.30.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Nicolo Sagredo [1606-1676], Venice; Zaccharia Sagredo [1653-1729], Venice, from the so-called Sagredo album; Maurice Marignane [b. 1879], Paris; Hubert Marignane, Paris; Hans Calmann [1899-1982], London, from 1944;[1] NGA purchase in 1980.
[1] Earliest reference in object file to this drawing being in the Hans Calmann Collection is found in an exhibition catalogue: The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, by Hans Tiestze and E. Tietze-Conrat (J. J. Augustin, New York, 1944), no. 163: p. 52.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Konstens Venedig: utst ällning anordnad med anledning av Konung Gustaf VI Adolfs åttioarsdag, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1962-1963, no. 228.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1992

  • Jacopo Bassano, Museo Civico, Bologna, and The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1992-1993, 119, 197-199, 488, no. 94 (Italian version with different page numbering).

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 25.

2018

  • Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 8 (fig. 15), repro.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 48, 52, no. 163.

1960

  • Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Milan, 1960, I:170.

1962

  • Rearick, W.R. "Jacopo Bassano: 1568-9," The Burlington Magazine 104, December 1962: 525-526, fig. 11.

1969

  • Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione ad un catalogog dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano," Arte Veneta 23, 1969: 96,98, 100

1971

  • Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione a un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano-II," in Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Antonio Morassi, Venice, 1971: 138

1983

  • Dreyer, Peter. "Ein Blatt von Jacopo Bassano aus dem Jahre 1569," Pantheon 41, 1983: 146.

1988

  • Old Master Drawings (sale catalogue), London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1988, under no. 62.

1989

  • Rearick, W. R. "Jacopo dal Ponte,The Drawings of His Later Maturity (1568-1574)." In Iacobus a Ponte Bassanensis, Bassano del Grappa, 1989: 3:no. III, 2, colorplate I.

1990

  • Ballarin, Alessandro. "Jacopo Bassano, Incontro di Giacobbe e Rachele al pozzo." in Da Biduino ad Algardi: Pittura e Scultura a Confronto, ed. Giovanni Romano. Turin, 1990: 129.

1993

  • Rearick, W. R. "Jacopo Bassano as Draftsman." Drawing 15, no. 1, May-June 1993: 4.

  • Jacopo Bassano: c. 1510-1592. Exh cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1993: 119, 199, 484-486.

1995

  • Ballarin, Alessandro. Jacopo Bassano, Scritti 1964-1995. Padua, 1995: reprints of 1969 and 1971 articles, "Introduzione ad un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano," 163, 165, 167, 185.

1997

  • Ketelsen, Thomas. "A Newly Discovered Drawing by Jacopo Bassano," Master Drawings 35, no. 2, Summer 1997: 184, note 1.

1998

  • Bickendorf, Gabriele. "'Disegni coloriti'-die Pastelle Jacoop Bassanos," Pantheon 56, 1998: 90-91, 94, note 16, fig. 17.

2001

  • Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 155.

2018

  • Marciari, John.Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019: 37, no. 8 (fig. 15)

Inscriptions

upper left in black chalk: 1568 / da agost I; lower right verso in brown ink: [Baham?]; center verso in brown ink, written vertically: B.B.n.87

Wikidata ID

Q64580043

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