Studies for Christ Before Caiaphas
1608/1609
Artist, Lombard, 1573 - 1626

Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk heightened with white gouache on gray-green laid paper, laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 26.4 × 38.5 cm (10 3/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
mount: 34.5 × 47.8 cm (13 9/16 × 18 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2021.3.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Count Giulio Litta-Visconti-Arese Umberto Osio [1891-1967], Milan. (Christie’s, London, 25 March 1969, lot 102]; (via Hans Calmann to) Robert Landolt (his sale, Christie's London, 7 December 2020); purchased for NGA, 2020.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2013
Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus dem Sammlung Robert Landholt, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zurich, 2013 - 2014, no. 30 (entry by M. Matile)
Bibliography
1969
Herbert, John. Christie's Review of the Year: 1969. London, 1969: 67.
1974
Ward Neilson, Nancy. "Review of Giulio Bora, Il Seicento lombardo. Catalogo dei disegni, libri, stampe" Master Drawings 12 (1974): 59.
2003
Stoppa, Jacopo. Il Morazzone. Milan, 2003: 195
2024
Bober, Jonathan. "Seventeenth-century Milanese drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and some associated collections."Arte Lombarda 200-201, no. 1-2 (2024): 77, fig. 10.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left in brown ink: Morazone 36; upper right in brown ink: 6; by later hand, center verso in brown ink: I.30