Artist Agostino Carracci, Italian, 1557-1602
Artist after Paolo Veronese, Italian, 1528-1588
Title
  • Pietà
  • Dead Christ (alternate title)
Date 1582
Medium engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Image: 15 1/2 × 11 1/4 inches (39.4 × 28.6 cm)
Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 3/8 inches (40.3 × 28.9 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S249
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamped, in black, verso: VE (circled)
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image: Agu. Car. fe
Inscribed, lower left center: Paolo Calliaj Veronese inue. | Oratio Bertelli for. 1582.
Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: J. N. Mayer 1839 (Lugt 1804)
Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: Augustin Carache. 102. Le corps mort de Jesus Christ, d'apres Paul Verones. Tres belle piece.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: No. 249; No. 95; S56
Inscribed, verso: [erasures]
Johann Nepomuk Mayer (Vienna, Austria).
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)