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Christ Carrying the Cross
Sebastiano del Piombo · c. 1515–17
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ochoa-Herrera family, Calle Muñoz y Garnica, Jaén, Spain, by at least 1956 but probably earlier [according to e-mail correspondence of February 19 and 26, 2016, between David Durán and Rebecca Long; copy in curatorial file. See also photograph of painting from 1956, labeled “collection of the widow Ochoa” and “Jaén,” in Arxiu Mas, Barcelona; copy in curatorial file]; sold by the family to Durán Arte y Subastas, Madrid, May 27, 2015, lot no. 78; bought by Goldengate Arts Ltd., Dublin [according to export license of July 23, 2015; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Colnaghi/Coll y Cortés, London and Madrid, October 2015 [according to e-mail correspondence of February 8, 2016, between Jorge Coll and Rebecca Long; copy in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2016.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Carlton Hobbs LLC, A Joint Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, Sculptures and Decorative Arts Together with Colnaghi and Tomasso Brothers, January 21-30, 2016, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- José López-Rey, “Vicente Macip, Sebastiano del Piombo et l’esprit tridentin,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 78 (1971), p. 353 n. 4.
- José Gómez Frechina and Nicola Jennings, eds., Sebastiano del Piombo: Christ Carrying the Cross, Colnaghi Studies 1 (London and Madrid: Colnaghi, 2016), ff., figs. 1, 41, 65-7.
- James Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 29 (ill.).
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