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The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
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The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus IIIF Get a closer view of this artwork
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus (1520-22)
Public Domain
Artist
L'Ortolano
Artist Dates
born c. 1487-active 1524
Artist Nationality
Italian
Title
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus
Date
1520-22
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
59.1 x 66.7 cm (23-1/4 x 26-1/4 in)
K Number
K1752
Repository
Samek Art Museum
Accession Number
1961.K.1752
Notes

Provenance

Achillito Chiesa, Milan. [1] Principessa di Walden; (sold, Geri's, Milan, 7 January 1930, no. 29, as L'Ortolano). Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundatioin on 1 July 1950; gift to to the Samek Art Museum Bucknell University in 1961, no. BL-K4. [1] The painting is not listed in any of the Achillito Chiesa sales held at the American Art Association between 1925 and 1930.

Catalogue Entry

L'Ortolano
The Dead Christ Sustained by Nicodemus
K1752

Lewisburg, Pa., Bucknell University, Study Collection (BL-K4) , since 1961.(1) Wood. 23 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (59.1 x 66.7 cm.). Fair condition; abraded, especially in flesh tones; cleaned 1952. Relationship to the style of such a Brescian master as Moretto accounts for an attribution of K1752 to Ber­nardino da Asola;(2) but parallels with details of the Pieta in Naples, which is accepted as by L'Ortolano and is inscribed 1521, convincingly place K1752 in the last years of this artist's activity.(3) Joseph of Arimathea is almost the same in the two pictures, as are the crown and the loincloth, while the decorations of Christ's halo and the drapery borders are repeated in other paintings given to this artist. Provenance: Achillito Chiesa, Milan. Principessa di Walden (sold, Geri's, Milan, Jan. 7, 1930, no. 29, as L'Ortolano). Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1950 –exhibited: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1952-60.(4)

References

(1) Catalogue by B. Gummo, 1961, p. 28, as L'Ortolano. (2) B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 88. (3) K1752 is attributed to L'Ortolano by R. Longhi (Officina ferrarese, 1956, p. 76) and G. Frabetti (L'Ortolano, 1966, pp. 25, 50, suggesting the possible identification of K1752 with L'Ortolano's 'Dio Padre con un Christo morta nelle braccia,' recorded by M. A. Guarini, Compendio historico ... di Ferrara, 1621, p. 230, as in the Oratorio of the Madonna di Castelnuovo in Ferrara). (4) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1952, p. 42, as L'Ortolano.

Catalogue Volume

Italian Paintings XV – XVI Century