drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.852
- Description
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The Risen Christ appearing to his mother with saints liberated from Limbo behind him
Brush drawing in brown ink
- Production date
- 1559-1628
- Dimensions
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Height: 239 millimetres
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Width: 367 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attributed by the Tietzes to Vassilacchi, called l'Aliense and related by them to an unexecuted project for the ceiling of the choir of Santa Justina, Venice. As Bert Meijer noted this connection cannot be correct as the subject was Christ's ascension while the present work, as he first noted, shows the relatively unusual subject of Christ appearing to the Virgin Mary after his resurrection. His speculative attribution to the little known Venetian follower of Palma Giovane, Girolamo Pilotti (c.1579-1639), based on stylistic similarities with figures in the artist's painted corpus may be correct. However until a firm attribution for his graphic work emerges from Meijer's pioneering efforts to trace his style it seems prudent to retain this among the drawings kept as the School of Palma Giovane.
HC
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 403 (as Jacopo Tintoretto); H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian painters in the 15th and 16th centuries', New York, 1944, no. 10, p. 33 (as Aliense); B. Meijer, 'll disegno veneziano 1580-1650, recostruzioni storico-artistiche', Florence, 2017, pp. 378-9 (as Pilotti)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Dyce provenance according to Malcolm catalogue
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.852