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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.31
People
Giovanni Battista Crosato, Italian (1686 - 1758 Venice, Italy)
Previously attributed to Carlo Innocenzo Carlone, Italian (Scaria 1668 - 1775 Como)
Title
The Descent from the Cross
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian, Lombard
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232069

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.3 x 73 cm (34 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
1920.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo: Including Pictures by His Pupils and Followers Wrongly Attributed to Him, checklist, Phaidon Press Limited (London, 1962), p. 62, as "The Deposition from the Cross"
  • Anna Palluchini, L'opera Completa di Giambattista Tiepolo, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, 1968), p. 136 as "La Desposizione"
  • 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. 248 [as 18th century Venice]
  • 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. 101, 356, repr. b/w cat. no. 770
  • Massimo Gemin and Filippo Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo: I dipinti, Opera completa, Arsenale (Venice, 1993), pp. 512-513, cat. no. 63, repr. p. 512
  • Giuseppe Pavanello, Schedule Settecentesche: Da Tiepolo a Canova, Arte in Friuli, Arte a Trieste, Edizioni Della Laguna (1999), 18-19, pp. 53-114, p. 79, fig. 38, repr.
  • Denis Ton, Giambattista Crosato: Pittore del Rococò Europeo, Scripta Edizioni (Verona, 2012), pp. 302-304, cat. no. 49, repr. p. 302

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