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Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Pietro da Cortona · 1635
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean François Gigoux (1806–1894), Paris [his dry stamp (Lugt 1164) recto, lower left]. Jacques Petithory (1929–1992), Paris [his stamp (not in Lugt) recto, lower right, and verso, center on mount, in black]; Robert M. Light, Boston, by 1976 [Los Angeles 1976]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute in 1998.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings," 1976, cat. 115 (ill.), cat. by Ebria Feinblatt.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 38, cat. 13 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- Francesco Abbate, Pietro da Cortona (Milan, 1965).
- Giuliano Briganti, Pietro da Cortona (Florence, 1967), p. 208, no. 156.
- Jorg Merz, Pietro da Cortona: Der Aüfstieg zum führenden Maler in barocken Rom (Wasmuth, 1991), p. 203, fig. 441.
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