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The Entombment of Christ
Federico Barocci · 1579/93
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jonathan Richardson, Jr. (1665-1745), London [Lugt 2170]. Sir Charles W. A. Oakeley (1825-1915), Tunbridge Wells, Kent, [inscription]; sold, Sotheby's, London, February 13, 1896, Oakeley Sale, lot 32, to Walker. W. Maxwell Bolton, Larchfield, Cheshire; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1964, lot 23, to Yvonne French. Mr. and Mrs. Hans M. Calmann, (1899-1982) London. Sold by John and Paul Herring and Company, Inc., New York, to the Art Institute, 1983.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci," exh. cat. by Edmund P. Pillsbury and Louise S. Richards; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1978, pp. 63-64, cat. 40, ill. (as Barocci).
- Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Rijksprentenkabinet, "Italiaanse Tekeningen Il de 15de en 16de Eeuw," exh. cat. by L. C. J. Frerichs, 1981.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 30-31, cat. 4 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago." April 10-July 22, 1997.
Literature
Published references
- Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, vol. 9/7 (Milan, 1934).
- Alfredo Puerari, Raccolte artistiche: Catalogo Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona (Cremona, 1976).
- Lieneke C. J. Frerichs, "Twee grote werktekeningen van Federico Barocci, verworven voor het Rijksmuseum," Bulletin Van Het Rijksmuseum (1978), pp. 3-10.
- Brunella Teodori, "Aspetti del baroccismo perugino: Benedetto Bandiera, Felice e Vincenzo Pellegrini," Arte e Musica in Umbria tra Cinquecento e Seicento. Atti del XII Convegno di Studi Umbri. Gubbio - Gualdo Tadino, 30 November-2 December 1979 (Gubbio, 1981), pp. 275-99.
- Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, Christie, Manson and Woods, London 1984.
- Diane De Grazia, "Refinement and Progression of Barocci's Entombment: The Chicago Modello," The Art Institute of Chicaogo Museum Studies 12 (1985), pp. 31-42.
- Diane De Grazia, 'Refinement and Progression of Barocci's Entombment: The Chicago Modello,' The Art Institute Museum Studies 12 (1985): 31-42.
- Marco Tanzi, "Qualche aggiunta al Malosso e alla sua cerchia," Prospettiva (1985), pp. 82-85.
- Edmund P. Pillsbury, 'Barocci at Bologna and Florence,' Master Drawings, 14, no. 1, (1986), pp. 56-64.
- Anna Fucili Bartolucci, "La Scuola Baroccesca, Claudio Ridolfi e i suoi epigoni," Arte e Cultura nella Provincia di Pesaro e Urbino dalle origini a oggi, ed. by Franco Battistelli (Venice, 1986).
- George R. Goldner, Lee Hendrix and Gloria Williams, European Drawings 1: Catalogue of the Collections, The J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, California, 1988).
- 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. 17-18, no. 16 (ill.).
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