About the Artwork
Entombment of Christ
ca. between 1659 and 1660
Luca Giordano
1634-1705
Italian
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 83 1/2 × 62 3/4 inches (212.1 × 159.4 cm) Framed: 98 1/4 × 77 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (249.6 × 196.9 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
72.434
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Maria Carolina di Borbone, Duchess of Berry (Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi, Venice, Italy)
April 19, 1865, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction Duchess of Berry, lot 70
private collection (France)
(Heim Gallery, Paris, France)
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens & Modernes Composant la Galerie du Palais Vendramini, à Venise et Appartenant à Mme. la Duchesse de Berry..." Sales cat., Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 19, 1865, p. 16, no. 70.
Ferrari, Oreste. "The Entombment: A Youthful Work by Luca Giordano." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 54, no. 1 (1975): 24–32, pp. 24–32, fig. 1 (ill.).
Kramer, Mariam. "News and Views Abroad: Exhibitions in Britain." Canadian Collector (September/October 1982): 64, p. 64 (ill.).
Whitfield, Clovis and Jane Martineau, eds. Painting in Naples 1606–1705: From Caravaggio to Giordano. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington. London, 1982, pp. 171–172, cat. 63 (ill.).
La Peinture Napolitaine de Caravage à Giordano. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, pp. 221–222, cat. 34 (ill.).
La Pittura a Napoli da Caravaggio a Luca Giordano. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Torino, 1983, pp. 64–65, figs. 42–43 (ill.); p. 126.
Spinosa, Nicola. La pittura napoletana del '600. Milan, 1984, p. 434, pl. 435.
Scavizzi, Giuseppe. "New Drawings by Luca Giordano." Master Drawings 37, no. 2 (1999): 103–137, p. 130, n. 5.
Ferrari Oreste, and Giuseppe Scavizzi. Luca Giordano: L'opera completa. Naples, 2000, vol. 1: pp. 30, 262, cat. A78; vol. 2: pp. 506-507, 946, pl. 155 (ill.).
Bissell, R. Ward, Andria Derstine and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 98–101, no. 31 (ill.).
Goldin, Marco. Tutankhamon Caravaggio Van Gogh: La sera e I notturni dagli Egizi al Novecento. Exh. cat., Basilica Palladiana. Treviso, 2014, pp. 98, 448, 475–476 (ill.), 541–542, no. 105.
Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 99.
Úbeda de los Cobos, Andrés. Luca Giordano at the Museo Nacional del Prado: catalogue raisonné. Madrid, 2017, pp. 45–46 (ill.).
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Luca Giordano, Entombment of Christ, ca. between 1659 and 1660, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 72.434.
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