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Jacopo Bassano

The Mocking of Christ, 1568

Not on View

Medium

colored chalks on blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 41.3 × 52.5 cm (16 1/4 × 20 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Accession Number

1980.30.1

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Bassano (artist) Venetian, c. 1510 - 1592

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Inscription

upper left in black chalk: 1568 / da agost I; lower right verso in brown ink: [Baham?]; center verso in brown ink, written vertically: B.B.n.87

Provenance

Nicolo Sagredo [1606-1676], Venice; Zaccharia Sagredo [1653-1729], Venice, from the so-called Sagredo album; Maurice Marignane [b. 1879], Paris; Hubert Marignane, Paris; Hans Calmann [1899-1982], London, from 1944;[1] NGA purchase in 1980.

[1] Earliest reference in object file to this drawing being in the Hans Calmann Collection is found in an exhibition catalogue: The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, by Hans Tiestze and E. Tietze-Conrat (J. J. Augustin, New York, 1944), no. 163: p. 52.

Associated Names

Calmann, Hans M.
Marignane, Hubert de
Marignane, Maurice de
Sagredo, Nicolo
Sagredo, Zaccaria

Exhibition History

1962: Konstens Venedig: utst ällning anordnad med anledning av Konung Gustaf VI Adolfs åttioarsdag, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1962-1963, no. 228.

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1992: Jacopo Bassano, Museo Civico, Bologna, and The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1992-1993, 119, 197-199, 488, no. 94 (Italian version with different page numbering).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 25.

2018: Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019, no. 8.

2019: The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1944: Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 48, 52, no. 163.

1960: Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Milan, 1960, I:170.

1962: Rearick, W.R. "Jacopo Bassano: 1568-9," The Burlington Magazine 104, December 1962: 525-526, fig. 11.

1969: Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione ad un catalogog dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano," Arte Veneta 23, 1969: 96,98, 100

1971: Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione a un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano-II," in Studi di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Antonio Morassi, Venice, 1971: 138

1983: Dreyer, Peter. "Ein Blatt von Jacopo Bassano aus dem Jahre 1569," Pantheon 41, 1983: 146.

1988: Old Master Drawings (sale catalogue), London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1988, under no. 62.

1989: Rearick, W. R. "Jacopo dal Ponte,The Drawings of His Later Maturity (1568-1574)." In Iacobus a Ponte Bassanensis, Bassano del Grappa, 1989: 3:no. III, 2, colorplate I.

1990: Ballarin, Alessandro. "Jacopo Bassano, Incontro di Giacobbe e Rachele al pozzo." in Da Biduino ad Algardi: Pittura e Scultura a Confronto, ed. Giovanni Romano. Turin, 1990: 129.

1993: Jacopo Bassano: c. 1510-1592. Exh cat. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 1993: 119, 199, 484-486.

1993: Rearick, W. R. "Jacopo Bassano as Draftsman." Drawing 15, no. 1, May-June 1993: 4.

1995: Ballarin, Alessandro. Jacopo Bassano, Scritti 1964-1995. Padua, 1995: reprints of 1969 and 1971 articles, "Introduzione ad un catalogo dei disegni di Jacopo Bassano," 163, 165, 167, 185.

1997: Ketelsen, Thomas. "A Newly Discovered Drawing by Jacopo Bassano," Master Drawings 35, no. 2, Summer 1997: 184, note 1.

1998: Bickendorf, Gabriele. "'Disegni coloriti'-die Pastelle Jacoop Bassanos," Pantheon 56, 1998: 90-91, 94, note 16, fig. 17.

2001: Rearick, William R. Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento. Milan, 2001: 155.