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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1929.335
People
After Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian (Milan or Caravaggio, Italy 1571 - 1610 Porto Ercole, Italy)
Title
The Entombment of Christ
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th century
Culture
Italian, Roman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231344

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
228 x 148.8 cm (89 3/4 x 58 9/16 in.)
frame: 239.3 x 158 x 7.5 cm (94 3/16 x 62 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Campi, Florence; purchased by E.W. Forbes, 1928; donated to Fogg Museum, 1929.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes and the Friends of the Fogg Museum of Art Fund
Accession Year
1929
Object Number
1929.335
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 44
  • 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), p. 101, not repr.

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