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Christ Carried to the Tomb, after Annibale Carracci
Sisto Badalocchioc.1607
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
"Badalocchio was one of the most talented members
of Annibale Carracci’s studio in Rome. The original version of this composition, by Annibale himself, was long considered lost. However, it resurfaced in 1998, and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Other versions can be found in the Galleria Borghese, Rome, and the Palazzo Patrizi in Siena.
There are some slight differences from the original, mostly in the overall skill of the execution. For instance, Badalocchio covers Christ’s elbow with drapery in order to avoid replicating the difficult foreshortening of Carracci’s original."
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Details
- Title: Christ Carried to the Tomb, after Annibale Carracci
- Creator Lifespan: 1560 - 1609
- Date: c.1607
- Physical Dimensions: w384 x h476 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: Versions are at Cremona; Oxford, Christ Church Gallery; London, NG.
- Work Nationality: Italian
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: ?London, Noel Desenfans, 1795-1807: ?London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 26 Feb. 1795, lot 6 (alternatively this may be DPG162); London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811 (as Lodovico Carracci).
- Further Information: The composition probably derives from a painting by Annibale Carracci commissioned in 1595 by a member of the Sampieri family of Bologna. The attribution to Badalocchio was proposed by Brugnoli and is accepted by Van Tuyll van Serooskerken, who suggests a date of c. 1607. Several other versions are known, though their attribution remains problematic; a comparable composition is also known in a number of versions, of which one is in the National Gallery, London.
- Artist: Badalocchio, Sisto
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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