The Bearing of the Cross, c. 1569/1573

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on two joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 13, State i/ii

Accession Number

2020.124.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Fontana (artist) Veronese, c. 1524 - 1587

Domenico Campagnola (artist after) Venetian, before 1500 - 1564

Battista Mondella (publisher) Italian, active 1567 - 1573

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Eric Gillis & Associates
Sotheby's
Stanley, Eric

Bibliography

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