Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto (1518/19-1594)

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Jacopo Robusti, il Tintoretto (1518/19-1594)

The Crucifixion

49 7/8 x 66 3/8in. (126.7 x 168.6cm.)

Provenance

A label formerly on the back of the canvas (and sold with the picture in 1975) was inscribed: 'This picture of the Crucifixion of Our Lord between the thieves was painted by Tintoretto for Count Mocenigo; and remained in his family till now. It was sold by Count Aloise [sic] Mocenigo from his palace at S. Stae (St. Eustache), Venice, to Signor C. Richetti, from whom I purchased it. The authenticity of its history was confirmed to me by Mr. Perry, H.B.M. Consul at Venice. [Signed] Jas. P. Muirhead Haseley Court 15 August 1870'; by inheritance to Mrs. Thomas (née Muirhead) by whom given to the Catholic Parish Church, North Hinksey, Oxford
Sold by the Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees, Sotheby's, 25 Nov. 1970, lot 18 (#5,000)
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, 9 July 1975, lot 36 (#15,000)

Literature

J. B. Stoughton Holborn, Jacopo Robusti called Tintoretto, London, 1903, p.105
R Pallucchini, Due nuove opere giovanili di Jacopo Tintoretto, Arte Veneta, XXVI, 1972, pp.54-7 and fig.53
R. Pallucchini and P. Rossi, Tintoretto, Le opere sacre e profane, Milan, 1982, I, p.161, no.146, and II, p.380, figs.193-4

Lot Essay

Pallucchini, publishing the present picture in 1972 as 'un'altra versione in chiave lirica di un tema caro allo spirito drammatico dell'artista', dates it c.1550, placing it between two other treatments of the same subject by Tintoretto; one in the Museo Civico, Padua, datable c.1545 and the other, formerly in the church of San Severo and now in the Accademia, Venice, which he initially dated to the end of the 1550s and subsequently to 1554-5 (Pallucchini, op. cit., 1982, I, p.145, no.90, and II, figs.113-14; and I, p.168, no.171, and II, fig.224)

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