
The Entombment of Christ
Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane · 1595/1600
Provenance
Ownership history
- Marquis de Lagoy [stamp (Lugt 1710), recto, lower right, in black]. Dr. F. Pokorny [stamp (Lugt 2036), verso, lower left, in green]. A. Posonyi [script (Lugt 2040), verso, center and lower left on mount, in pen and brown ink]; sold, J. Wawra, Vienna, May 21, 1900. Unknown collector [unidentified stamp (R.U.F.), verso, lower left on mount, in green]. Lord Walston. Germain Seligman [stamp verso, lower right on mount, in blue]; sold by Jacques Seligman and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1962.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 7, pl. IV.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Venetian Drawings From American Collections," September 21, 1974-April 20, 1975; also traveled to Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum; and the Toledo Museum of Art.
- 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. 32-33, cat. 5 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Strokes of Genius: Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection," November 1, 2014-February 1, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 155-57, no. 201 (ill.).
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