- Museum number
- 1953,1212.5
- Description
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The road to Calvary; Christ weighed down by the Cross, the Virgin swooning at right, soldiers on horseback behind, a semi-draped figure at far left
Brush drawing in grey-brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1535 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 millimetres
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Width: 181 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Probably a copy after a lost drawing by Gaudenzio. Workshop versions of the same composition are in the Uffizi, Florence (12766 F) and in the Accademia, Venice (inv. 49). Giovanni Agosti thinks that the BM drawing might be an original by Gaudenzio ('quello certamente più bello - che rischia di essere autografo - è conservato al British Museum'). Giovanni Romano describes the present drawing in the Rancate catalogue as 'molto vicino' to Gaudenzio, dates it to c. 1535, and believes that it might reflect a now lost prototype of the artist.
Lit.: G. Romano, in exhib. cat., Turin, Accademia Albertina, 'Gaudenzio Ferrari e la sua scuola', 1982, p. 163, illustrated p. 164 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari ?); G. Agosti, in exhib. cat., Florence, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, 'Disegni del Rinascimento in Valpadana', 2001, p. 50, n. 156; G. Romano in G. Agosti, J. Stoppa and M. Tanzi (eds), in exhib. cat., Rancate, Pinacoteca cantonale Giovanni Züst, 'Il Rinascimento nelle terre ticinesi da Bramantino a Bernardino Luini, catalogo e itinerari', 2010 (revised edition), under no. 55, p. 227
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1953, RA, 'Drawings by Old Masters', no. 77
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,1212.5
