Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns
- Date
- early 1630's
- Medium
- Oil on copper panel
- Dimensions
-
Panel: 19 1/2 x 16 in. (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
Framed: 33 x 29 5/8 x 2 in. (83.8 x 75.3 x 5.1 cm)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of James E. Scripps
- Accession No.
- 89.23
- Provenance
- London, sale (Christie's) when purchased by Scripps;
Detroit, James E. Scripps (1889), by whom given to the DIA.
- Keywords
-
metal, oil, paint, panel, copper, religion, christian
Published References
Detroit Museum of Art, ¦Catalogue of the Scripps Collection of Old Masters¦, Detroit, 1889, p. 29, no. 28
DMA, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters , Detroit, 1910, p. 25, no. 26.
Detroit, DIA, Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts , (cat. compiled by C. Burroughs), 1920, p. 39, no. 25.
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, "Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento", 1930.
Heil, W., Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit, 1930, cat. 184, repr.
Richardson, E.P. (ed.), DIA, Catalogue of Paintings , (2nd ed.) Detroit, 1944, p. 108, no. 184.
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, "Favorite Italian And Spanish Masters of the 17th And 18th Centuries", 1951, pp. 4,15, no. 20, pl. IV.
Myers, B. S., ed., Encyclopedia Of Painting , New York, 1970, p. 413, repr.
Garboli, C. and E. Baccheschi, L'opera completa di Guido Reni , Milan, 1971, p. 113, cat. 194d (not repr.)
Fredericksen, B. and Zeri, F., Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections , Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 173.
Pepper, Stephen D., Guido Reni, A Complete Catalogue Of His Works , Oxford, 1984, pp. 235, 270, cat. 146A, fig.172.
Conti, A., "Pittura e immagine in Guido Reni: dalle opere 'non perfette' al tempo pittore", in Prospettiva 52, 1988, pp. 25-31, esp. p. 28 (as 18th century)
Exh. cat. Frankfurt, ¦Guido Reni e l'Europa. Fama e fortuna¦, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1988, p. 220
Exh. cat. Dresden, ¦Ecclesia triumphans dresdenis. Christliche Kunst am Hofe der sächsischen Könige von Polen¦, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, pub. in Vienna, 1988, p. 56
Bologna, Pinacoteca--Los Angeles, L.A. County Museum of Art--Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, "Guido Reni 1575-1642", 1988-89, pp. 274-5, cat. 45 (English cat.); p. 134, cat. no. 56 (Italian cat.), color repr.
Spear, R., "Re-viewing the 'Divine Guido'", Burlington Magazine 131, 1989, pp. 367-72, esp. p. 372
Markova, V., "Un dipinto sconosciuto e gli altri quadri del Reni al Museo 'Pushkin' di Mosca", in Accademia Clementina: atti e memorie 25, 1990, pp. 81-5, esp. 84, note 15
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., London, "Italian and the Italianate," 1990, pp. 8 - 9.
Loire, S., "Guido Reni dopo la mostra di Bologna: qualche aggiunta", in Accademia Clementina: atti e memorie 25, 1990, pp. 9-30, esp. p. 28
Mazza, A. ¦La collezione dei dipinti antichi della Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena¦, Cento 1991, pp. 150, 152
Exh. cat. Rome, ¦Quadri senza casa dai depositi della Galleria Corsini¦, Galleria Nazionale, Palazzo Corsini, Rome, 1993, p. 18
Spear, R. E. The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni , New Haven/London, 1997, pp. 74, 200, 236, 237, 372 (note 58), fig. 114 (as "probably autograph").
Ugolini, G., "E a Detroit il 'Reni' di Sassocorvaro?", in Studi montefeltrani 21, 2001, pp. 123-26
Bissell, R. W., Derstine, A. and Miller, D., ¦Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts¦, London, 2005, pp. 8, 152-55 (cat. no. 50, entry by W. Bissell)
