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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1924.21
People
Carlo Crivelli, Italian (Venice, Italy 1430/35 - before 1495 Ascoli Piceno, Italy)
Restored by Luigi Cavenaghi, Italian (Caravaggio 1844 - 1918 Milan)
Title
The Dead Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1475
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Marches
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228930

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel transferred to canvas with major overpainting
Dimensions
66.4 x 64 cm (26 1/8 x 25 3/16 in.)
frame: 80.6 x 73.3 x 7.6 cm (31 3/4 x 28 7/8 x 3 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Count Augusto Caccialupi collection, Macerata, after 1870, sold [through his sale, Rome, 1907, lot 232]; to Reverend Robert Jenkins Nevin sold [through his sale, Rome, April 14-22, 1909, lot 170]; to [Gioacchino Ferroni] sold; to [Ercole Canessa (Paris and New York, until 1923?)] sold; to [Walter L. Ehrich, New York, January 25, 1924] for Arthur Sachs, New York, January 28, 1924, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1924

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs
Accession Year
1924
Object Number
1924.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Luigi Lanzi, Storia pittorica della Italia, Giuseppe Remondini (Bassano, 1795-1796), p. 15
  • Dan Fellow Platt, "Una Pietà del Crivelli", Rassegna d'Arte (1906), VI, no. 2, p. 30, p. 30 and reproduced in b/w p. 30
  • Catalogo della vendita della collezione del fu Reverendo Dottor Roberto I. Nevin, auct. cat., Galleria Sangiorgi (Rome, 1907), no. 232, repr. as tavola 11
  • Ferroni Sale, auct. cat. (Rome, Italy, 1909), p. 24
  • J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, ed. Tancred Borenius, Charles Scribner & Sons (New York, 1912), Vol. 1, p. 95 n. 12
  • Laudedo Testi, La storia della pittura veneziana, Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche (Bergamo, 1915), pp. 638-39, 384
  • Raimond Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, 1923-1938), p. 18
  • Catalogue of a Collection of Counterfeits, Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, England, 1924), p. 44
  • Margaret E. Gilman, ed., Fogg Art Museum Notes, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1926), pp. 77-81
  • Franz Drey, Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule, Bruckmann Verlag (Munich, 1927), pp. 61, 73, 131
  • A.C.J., "Paintings by Carlo Crivelli in Boston and Cambridge", Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts (1930), Vol. XXVIII, no. 166, pp.22, 24, 25
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1932), p. 161
  • Hans Tietze, "The Psychology and Aesthetics of Forgery in Art", Metropolitan Museum Studies (August 1934), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-19, pp. 9-10; repr. as figs. 9, 10, 11
  • Sheldon Keck, "Is Restoration Necessary?", Magazine of Art (1937), Vol. 30, no. 6, p. 341
  • Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli nelle Marche, Istituto statale d'arte (Urbino, 1952), pp. 26, 66
  • Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Aldo Martello Editore (Milan, 1961), p. 98
  • Anna Bovero, ed., Tutta la pittura del Crivelli, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, 1961), pp. 45, 77-78
  • Edward Waldo Forbes, Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), pp. 124-127, repr. in b/w
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 60
  • Anna Bovero, L'opera completa del Carlo Crivelli, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, 1975), p. 98
  • Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo (Florence, 1986), pp. 258, 302
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 18-19, fig. 5-7 (intro), repr. b/w; pp. 103, 312, repr. b/w cat. no. 604.
  • Pierluigi de Vecchi, Itinerari crivelleschi nelle Marche, exh. cat. (1997), pp. 70-71
  • Jaynie Anderson, ed., Collecting Connoisseurship and the Art Market in Risorgimento Italy: Giovanni Melli an Pietro Zavaritt (1866-1872), Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (Venice, 1999), p. 53
  • Ronald Lightbown, Carlo Crivelli, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, and London, 2004), pp. 381-382, repr. as fig. 174
  • Francesca Bewer, A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA, 2010), p. 110-111, fig. 3.16
  • Mauro Minardi, "Studi sulla collezione Nevin: i dipinti veneti del XIV e XV secolo", Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte (2012), vol. 36, pp. 335-40
  • Stephen J. Campbell, Ornament & Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Paul Holberton Publishing (London, 2015), pp. 180-182, cat. no. 16, repr. p.181

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of a Collection of Counterfeits Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1924 - 12/31/1924
  • Ornament and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 10/22/2015 - 01/25/2016

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