The Mocking of Christ
1568
Artist, Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592
Artwork overview
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Medium
colored chalks on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 41.3 × 52.5 cm (16 1/4 × 20 11/16 in.)
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Accession
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.
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.
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