Christ Carried to the Tomb, 1607/1620

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Medium

brush and oil paints over black chalk on tan oatmeal paper (laid on eighteenth (?) century mount)

Dimensions

overall: 27 × 40.9 cm (10 5/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2007.111.140

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Palma il Giovane (artist) Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

Image Use

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Inscription

old black chalk bottom center "1607;" graphite "Tintoretti;" pen and black ink "2" after the Houlditch mark; verso pen and black ink "1755"

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

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Harewood House
Houlditch, Richard
Stiftung Ratjen

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.

Bibliography

2017: Meijer, Bert W. Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650 : ricostruzioni storico-artistiche. Florence, 2017: 15, note 83.