1994.151: Christ Bearing the Cross

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1994.151

People

Bernardino Poccetti, Italian (San Marino di Valdelsa, Italy 1548 - 1612 Florence, Italy)

Title

Christ Bearing the Cross

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Way to Calvary

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th-17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294271

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, traced with stylus, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 32 x 20 cm (12 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bonhams, New Bond Street, London, sold at auction, 1990. Sale, July 19, 1990, no 3, fig. 22 (in color) (as attributed to Niccolò Circignano, called Il Pomarancio)
Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, sold to Vermeer Associates Limited, 1993. Catalogue: Dessins anciens, 1992, no. 23, repr. in color

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor

Accession Year

1994

Object Number

1994.151

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bernard Barryte, "Bernardino Poccetti, Christ Bearing the Cross", Porticus, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, 1989 -1990), vol. XII-XIII, pp. 10-23, p. 14, fig. 4
• Nicholas Turner, "A Study by Poccetti for his Etching of the 'Way to Calvary'", Print Quarterly (1991), VII, pp. 37-40, fig. 22, p. 38

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