Christ and the Adulteress
Christ and the Adulteress
- Artist
- Rocco Marconi
- Artist Dates
- active 1504 -died 1529
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Christ and the Adulteress
- Date
- c. 1525
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 116.2 x 155.6 cm (45-3/4 x 61-1/4 in)
- K Number
- K1629
- Repository
- Lowe Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 61.028.000
- Notes
Provenance
Probably Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston [1784-1865], London; (his sale, London, 4-6 November 1850, second day, no. 293): bought by Smith. Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd Bart. [1844-1920], Doughty House, Surrey, by 1913; Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd Bart. [1868-1939], Doughty House; Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Bart. [1907-1978], Doughty House. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 10 March 1949; gift 1961 to the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, no. 61.028.000.
Catalogue Entry
Rocco Marconi
Christ and the Adulteress
K1629
Coral Gables, Fla., Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami (61.28), since 1961.(1) Canvas. 46 1/2 x 61 5/8 in. (118.1 x 156.5 cm.). Inscribed on cartello in upper background: ROCHVS MARCHONIVS. Good condition except for a few restorations. Among the copies and nearly a dozen known versions, K1629 is a key example because it is signed. Most like it is the version in the Accademia, Venice, likewise signed. Titian's coloring and Palma Vecchio's breadth of form were strongly influential in K1629, which probably dates about 1525.(2) Provenance: Cook Collection, Richmond, Surrey (catalogue by T. Borenius, vol. I, 1913, no. 150, as Rocco Marconi. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1949.
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1961, p. 64, as Rocco Marconi. (2) K1629 is dated about 1525 by R. Longhi (in ms. opinion), noting that it shows the influence of the mature Palma and precedes the mannerism of Marconi's last work. It is listed under Marconi by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 109, and earlier lists) and in art encyclopedias and books on the Venetian School of painting.