Christ before Pilate by Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci)
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Christ before Pilate

Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci) · 1522/23

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Private collection, England [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. British Rail Pension Fund; sold by Lexbourne Ltd., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Acquisitions: Old Master Drawings of the 15th-18th Centuries," 1989-1990.
  • New York, Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 3; also Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 10-July 22, 1997.
  • Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence," May 29-Sept. 5, 2005, pp. 212-14, cat. 71 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque", Mar. 26-July 8, 2012, cat. 11, pp. 42-43.

Literature

Published references

  • Laura M. Giles, "Christ before Pilate: A Major Composition Study by Pontormo," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (1991), pp. 34-35.
  • Harriet K. Stratis, "The Technical Aspects of Pontormo’s Christ before Pilate," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17:1 (1991), pp. 46, and 49-50 (ill.).
  • Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo: Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Paris, 1994), pp. 11, 54, 60-61, and 175-76, fig. 45.
  • Alessandro Conti, Pontormo (Milan, 1995), pp. 33-34, and 78, pl. 33, as Closing the Gates of the Temple of Janus.
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 197-98, no. 255 (ill.).
  • "Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 16-17, no. 2 (ill.).
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.

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