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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
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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

Verification Level

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