drawing
- Museum number
- 1856,0712.3
- Description
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Christ on the Cross, with St John and the Holy Women below; St John looking up, his hands clasped, St Mary Magdalene kneeling at the foot of the Cross embracing Christ's feet, the Virgin collapsed at r
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (mostly oxidised), on blue paper
- Production date
- 1520-1590
- Dimensions
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Height: 403 millimetres
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Width: 262 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This highly finished drawing may have been intended as a standalone image, a possibility also suggested by the early ascription to Pino - an inscription that Andrea Zezza presumes to be a signature. Its date has been tethered to two fairly similar Crucifixions painted in Naples towards the end of Pino's career: by Pierluigi Leone de Castris, with the panel in the Tarragona Chapel in S. Giacomo degli Spagnoli, dated, according to De Dominici, to 1571, and by Zezza with the slightly later picture in the Martignano Chapel in SS. Severino e Sossio, signed 1577.
Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 232; P. Leone de Castris, 'Pittura del Cinquecento a Napoli, 1540-1573: Fasto e devozione', Naples, 1996, pp. 229, n. 26, and 232, n. 57; A. Zezza, 'Marco Pino: L'opera completa', Naples, 2003, pp. 316-7, no. C15.
Gere & Pouncey 1983
Lit.: M. Bénard, 'Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval', Paris, 1810, no. 374, p. 25
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- Samuel Woodburn bought Morel de Vindé's collection (grandson of Paignon-Dijonval) en bloc in 1819
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0712.3
