Domenico Fetti

Feti, Domenico

Roman, 1589 - 1623

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Italian painter (c.1589–1623)

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The head and pale face of a bearded man with a ring of interwoven branches of thorns over his chin-length, wavy, reddish-brown hair floats against a white cloth that has been hung over a wooden rod in this vertical painting. The cloth fills the composition. At its center, the man’s head faces us and he looks down with heavy-lidded, brown eyes. His lips are parted, and his cheeks are slightly sunken and shaded with pale lilac purple under high cheekbones. Blood drips down the man’s pallid forehead from the thorns. A brown spot high on his right cheek, on our left, might be a bruise or injury. A soft brown glow surrounds the head. The white cloth is frayed along its front edge, where it rests facing us on a wooden surface along the bottom edge of the painting. The cloth is bunched a little to each side where it drapes over the wooden rod above. The white cloth is painted with tones of pale coral pink, icy blue, silvery white, and dove gray. The background behind the cloth is black.
Domenico Fetti, The Veil of Veronica, c. 1618/1622, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.7

The Veil of Veronica

Domenico Fetti · c. 1618/1622 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.7

Bibliography

1955

  • Michelini, Paola. "Domenico Fetti a Venezia." Arte Veneta 9 (1955): 123-137.

1967

  • Lehmann, Jürgen. Domenico Fetti. Leben und Werk des römischen Malers. PhD. diss., Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, 1967.

1990

  • Safarik, Eduard. Fetti. Milan, 1990.

1996

  • De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 84.