Christ on the Mount of Olives

1743

John Baptist Jackson, after Jacopo Bassano

Associated Names
John Baptist Jackson

Artist, British, 1701 - 1780

Jacopo Bassano

Artist After, Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592

This is a drawing of a nocturnal landscape scene. The scene shows a celestial being interacting with a kneeling figure in a night-time landscape with rocky outcrops and distant architectural structures. The celestial being emits light, standing out in the darkness. The composition emphasizes contrasts between light and shadow using chiaroscuro techniques. The night sky has clouds, and there are spectators, trees, and vegetation in the landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in buff, medium brown, grey and dark brown on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 55.5 × 38 cm (21 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 60.3 × 42.1 cm (23 3/4 × 16 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.520

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Kainen 1962, no. 30, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Mulder, London); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 20, 1986; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1962

  • Kainen, Jacob. John Baptist Jackson; 18th century master of the color woodcut. Washington, 1962: no. 30, only

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom: Ill: mae atq; Excell: mae D: nae D: nae / Paulinae Contarenae / NOB: VENETAE, aviti sanguinis ingenti splendore clarae, sed Virtutum nebilitate longe clariori, piissimum / hoc Christianae Fidei monumentum, exiguum obseqentissimae servitutis suae signum, quod ex pictura / Jacobi de Ponte delineavit, exsculpsit, generosissimae Patronae, et Auspici dedicabat J: B: Jackson.

Wikidata ID

Q76557088

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