drawing
- Museum number
- 1859,0806.82
- Description
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The Entombment and the Lamentation over the dead Christ; his upper body being cradled by two figures in the foreground
Brush drawing in brown wash, with pen and brown ink, heightened with white (oxidised), on blue paper
- Production date
- 16thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres
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Width: 119 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Acquired as a work by Tintoretto, the drawing was later placed (May 1950) as an Anonymous Venetian XVIc drawing according to the Departmental register. It is now listed as a work by an artist in the circle of Palma Giovane, despite the fact that the Tietzes accepted it as an autograph work by Palma. The Tietzes noted a drawing of the same subject in the Louvre, Paris (Inv. 5192 as Palma Giovane; Tietzes no. 1095, pl. CLXXVI, 2). This like the 'Adoration of the Shepherds' also in the Louvre (Inv. 5160) plus another of the same subject with the Galeria de la Scala, Paris ('Dessins et Tableaux 1500-1900', 2001, no. 2) and 1900,0824.131 belong to a large group of works loosely drawn with the brush that are generally, but wrongly given to Palma Giovane. Stefania Mason has recently tentatively identified this hand as Alessandro Maganza while Nicholas Turner suggests they are by the young El Greco.
Lit.: H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. 981, pp. 206-7; S. Mason, 'Da una costola di Palma il Giovane: il disegnatore misterioso', "Artibus et Historiae", 55 (XXVIII), 2007, p. 128, fig. 14 (as ? Alessandro Maganza); N. Turner, 'A Proposal for El Greco as a Draftsman', "Master Drawings", XXXV, Autumn 2007, p. 309, fig. 28 (as Attributed to El Greco)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2018-19 Oct-Jan, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice
2019 Feb-May, Washington, NGA, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0806.82