Christ Carried to the Tomb
1607/1620
Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628
Jacopo Palma il Giovane
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and oil paints over black chalk on tan oatmeal paper (laid on eighteenth (?) century mount)
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Credit Line
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
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Dimensions
overall: 27 × 40.9 cm (10 5/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2007.111.140
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Houlditch, London (died 1736) (Lugt 2214); The Earl of Harewood; the Earl of Harewood Charitable Trust; (sale, Christie's London, 2 July 1985, no. 35); Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 7.
1996
Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 7.
2011
Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 18.
2012
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 40.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 78 (fig. 167), repro.
Bibliography
2017
Meijer, Bert W. Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650 : ricostruzioni storico-artistiche. Florence, 2017: 15, note 83.
2018
Marciari, John.Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice. Exh. cat. Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019: 202, no. 78 (fig. 167).
Inscriptions
old black chalk bottom center "1607;" graphite "Tintoretti;" pen and black ink "2" after the Houlditch mark; verso pen and black ink "1755"
Wikidata ID
Q64580076