drawing
- Museum number
- 1979,0721.34
- Description
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The Resurrection of Christ; emerging from the tomb with a banner in his left hand, with soldiers or guards below
Black chalk and charcoal with stump
- Production date
- 1785-1790 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 569 millimetres
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Width: 373 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- There is a copy of this drawing in the Brera, M.T. Caracciolo, p. 449, no. 1R.
Lit: A.M. Clark, 'An Introduction to the drawings of Giuseppe Cades', Master Drawings, 1964, II, pp. 22 and 36, pl. 12; M.T. Caracciolo, 'Giuseppe Cades 1750-1799 et la Rome de son temps', Paris, 1992, p.301, No 95 bis (where dated at the end of the 1780s).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 July-Sep, BM, 'Unity and Simplicity: Neoclassicism in Europe'.
2019, 06 Sep–15 Dec, USA, San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, Masterpieces of Italian Drawings 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
- 1979
- 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
- 1979,0721.34
