Sisto Badalocchio, 'Christ carried to the Tomb', after 1609
About the work
Overview
Christ’s body has been taken down from the Cross and is being carried on a shroud to his place of burial. His head rests limply on his shoulder; his pale, foreshortened body is the focus of a whole retinue of grieving figures, each expressing their sorrow in a different way.
This small picture is painted on copper, and the artist has exploited the material’s reflective properties by painting a night scene, contrasting the darkness of the cave with the flickering light provided by the flaming torch falling on the figures.
This picture was once attributed to Ludovico Carracci but is now thought to be by Sisto Badalocchio, and is closely related to a design by Annibale Carracci.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Christ carried to the Tomb
- Artist
- Sisto Badalocchio
- Artist dates
- 1585 - after 1621?
- Date made
- after 1609
- Medium and support
- oil on copper
- Dimensions
- 43.7 × 33.6 cm
- Acquisition credit
- Bequeathed by Lt.-Col. J.H. Ollney, 1837
- Inventory number
- NG86
- Location
- Room 26
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Previous owners
- Frame
- 18th-century French Frame
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Michael Levey, ‘National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools’, London 1986; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Bibliography
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1801118 Pall Mall, A Catalogue of Pictures from the Colonna, Borghese, and Cornsini Palaces, &c. &c. Purchased in Rome in the Years 1799 and 1800, London, January 1801
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1801J. Christie, A Catalogue of the Superb, Capital, and Truly Valuable Collection of Celebrated Italian Pictures Lately Purchased from the Colonna, Borghese, and Corsini Palaces, &c. by William Young Ottley, Esq., London, 16 May 1801
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1824W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting: With a Chronological History of the Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England Since the French Revolution, London 1824
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1838National Gallery, A Catalogue of Pictures in the National Gallery, London 1838
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1842Mrs Jameson, A Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London, London 1842
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1843F. Summerly, Felix Summerly's Hand Book for the National Gallery, London 1843
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1845G. Foggo, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Critical Notes, London 1845
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1847R.N. Wornum, Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery, London 1847
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1850National Gallery, A Catalogue of Pictures in the National Gallery, London 1850
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1853National Gallery, Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index, London 1853
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1853London, National Gallery Archive, NG15/3: Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index, 1853
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1967J.B. Shaw, Paintings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, London 1967
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1971M. Levey, The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools, London 1971
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1980C. van Tuyll Serookskerken, 'Badalocchio's "Entombment of Christ" from Reggio: A New Document and Some Related Paintings', The Burlington Magazine, CXXII/924, 1980, pp. 180-6
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1986Levey, Michael, National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Schools, London 1986
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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