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Christ carrying the Cross, with Saint Veronica (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1576-1638

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1560-1608

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

brown wash, black chalk, white bodycolour, on brown laid paper, squared in black chalk, laid down on a backing sheet with a black chalk drawing hidden on the verso

Dimensions

Height: 29 cm
Width: 21.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.37

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This drawing depicts the moment on the way to Calvary when Christ stumbles and Veronica offers her cloth to wipe his brow. Christ’s hollow eyes, which form the centre of the composition, stare at the cloth, directing the viewer’s gaze and giving a sense of his intense suffering. Many of Carducho’s finished drawings are squared for transfer to a canvas, though no related painting is known.

Provenance

Sir William Stirling Maxwell, London (1818-1878); by descent to his son, Sir John Stirling Maxwell, Glasgow (1866-1956); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 15 - 16 February 1921, lot 249; presumably purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); their sale, cat. 38, 1921, lot 374 (as Bartolomé Carducho); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt (1875-1952) (£3.95); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Narrative Folds (Pop-up exhibition), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/2013-01/06/2013

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 11/02/1980-29/03/1980

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)

Literature

Véliz, Zahira, Spanish Drawings in the Courtauld Gallery: complete catalogue, London, 2011
no. 13
Illus. p. 81

Angulo Iñiguez, Diego and Alfonso E. Perez, A Corpus of Spanish Drawings, New York 1975-1988; 4 vols.
vol. II, no. 126
Illus. pl. XXXVI

The golden age of Spanish art: from El Greco to Murillo and Valdes Leal: paintings and drawings from British Collections, Nottingham University Art Gallery, 1980
cat. no. 14 ...More

Spanish drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1978 (March - May)
cat. no. 10

Mayer, August L., 'Los dibujos espanoles de la coleccion Witt en Londres' in 'Arte Espanol', 1926-27 - pp. 2-4; VIII, 1
p. 2 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “Bicencio Carducho fe”.

Collector's mark: none.

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