- Museum number
- 1895,0915.841
- Description
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Study of a dead Christ lying on a block with latin inscription, a skeleton below
Brush drawing in grey wash, heightened with white on grey prepared paper
- Production date
- 1543-1588
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres
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Width: 279 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing was probably made by Veronese for his friend Parrassio Micheli, who developed it into a finished picture (now in the church of S Giuseppe, Venice) in which he shows himself adoring the dead Christ. A more expansive compositional study attributed to Parrassio himself, in which airborne angels with a monstrance have been added above the figure of Christ, was in a sale at Millon, Paris, 14 November 2014. That study retains the position of the head and the loops of rope hanging from the stretcher as they appear in the BM drawing, rather than in the finished picture, suggesting it represents an intermediary stage in the compositional process.
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq', London, 1876, no. 293; F.H. Meissner, 'Paolo Veronese', Bielefeld, 1897, p. 107, fig. 86; H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. 2094, p. 345; R. Cocke, 'Veronese's Independent Chiaroscuro Drawings', Master Drawings, XV, no. 3, Autumn 1977, pp.260-261, pl.18; R Cocke, 'Veronese's Drawings', London, 1984, no. 72
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1879 May-Jun, Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 'Des Dessins de Maîtres Anciens', no. 218
1972, BM, 'The Art of Drawing', No. 143
1996, BM, Malcolm Drawings, apx.
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Count Barck and Thibaudeau according to Malcolm catalogue
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.841
