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The Raising of Lazarus
The Raising of Lazarus

The Raising of Lazarus

Artist Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) b. 1518/1519, Venice; d. 1594, Venice
Artist Domenico Tintoretto b. 1560, Venice; d. 1635, Venice
Date1585–1590
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions49 3/16 × 78 5/8 in. (125 × 199.7 cm)
Frame: 63 3/4 × 91 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (161.9 × 233 × 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.49
On View
On view
ProvenanceComte de Chambord Collection; Duchesse de Berry Collection; Bourbon-Massimo Collection; Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York, 1956; Samuel H. Kress Foundation gift to NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesThe Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 100, illus. (color) 101 (as by Jacopo Tintoretto).

Carlo Bernari, L'opera completa del Tintoretto, Vol. 36, Classici dell 'Arte (Milano: Rizzoli Editore, 1970), 134.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, Vol. 3 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1973), 62, illus. fig. 119 (K2134).

Rodolfo Pallucchini, Tintoretto: Le Opere Sacre e Profane (Milan: Electra, 1982), 230.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 179.

Franco Mormando, "Tintoretto's recently rediscovered 'Raising of Lazarus,'" Burlington Magazine 142, no. 1171 (October 2000), 626, illus. 629.
Exhibition HistoryCambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1940-45.

London, England, Frank T. Sabin’s, 1950.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994, handout no. 13.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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