- Museum number
- 1920,1116.3
- Description
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Design for a chapel decoration with the Lamentation flanked by St Nicholas and St Catherine; the body of Christ being supported at centre
Brush drawing in brown and mauve wash, heightened with white, over black and red chalk, on buff paper, squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1550-1600 (fl.circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 178 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The lower part of 1920-11-16-2. For the change of attribution see record of latter drawing.
Lit.: D. von Hadeln, 'Venezianische Zeichnungen der Spätrenaissance', Berlin, 1926. pl. 16 (as Battista dal Moro); H. Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, 'The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries', New York, 1944, no. 35, p. 36 (as Battista dal Moro); T. Mullaly, in exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Cini, 'Disegni Veronesi del Cinquecento', 1971, no. 16 (as Battista dal Moro); P. Tosini, 'Opere dimenticate di Giovanni de'Vecchi', "Nuovi Studi", 12, 2007(2008), p. 87, fig. 166
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1971, Venice, Fondazione Cini, 'Disegni Veronesi del Cinquecento', no. 16 (as Battista del Moro)
2019, 13 Sep–13 Dec, USA, University of San Diego, University Galleries, Christ: Life, Death and Resurrection, Italian Renaissance Drawings & Prints from the British Museum
2020, 25 Jan–28 Sep, USA, Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of Art, The birth, death and resurrection of Christ: from Michelangelo to Tiepolo
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1920,1116.3
