The Bearing of the Cross

c. 1569/1573

Giovanni Battista Fontana

Artist, Veronese, c. 1524 - 1587

Battista Mondella

Publisher, Italian, active 1567 - 1573

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on two joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 40.6 × 65.3 cm (16 × 25 11/16 in.), trimmed within platemark

  • Accession

    2020.124.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 13, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 4 July 1979, no. 27). (P. & D. Colnaghi, London). Eric Stanley [1923 - 2018], Oxford; by descent. (Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 13, i/ii

Inscriptions

upper left in flag: SPQR; lower right in rock: Dominicus Campagnola inventor / Babtista fontana faciebat / Babtista mondella excudebat; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: proof before the dedication / in [not deciphered] of painter [not deciphered] / & Patmen's address 1584 / & Monte Calverio

Watermarks

ladder (not in Briquet)

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