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The Resurrection of Christ

Artist Giuseppe Maria Crespi, called 'lo Spagnuolo' Italian, 1665–1747

Datecirca 1690

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions56 1/2 x 40 in. (143.5 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 66 1/2 x 51 1/4 x 2 in. (168.9 x 130.2 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.153

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Provenance[Either: Marchesini family collection, Bologna ("un quadretto mezzano con la Risurrezione di N. S. con molte figure è un bozzo del detto Spagnuolo, che lo intagliò ancora in Rame [by Mattioli]") OR Signor Foresti, Bologna, before 1710 (Crespi's son Luigi, writing in a letter of February 11, 1751 to the collector Giovanni Bottari, to whom he had just sent an example of Mattioli's etching, mentions that the etching reproduces a canvas painted for Signor Foresti, a well-to-do citizen of Bologna (Bottari-Ticozzi, 1822, IV, p.366, no.CLIV): "Troverà in oltre la carta del Risurrezione, da lui [G. M. Crespi] pure intagliata da altro suo quadro dipinto per il Signor Foresti benestante qui di Bologna."] Possibly Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747-1813), Midlothian, County Edinburgh, Scotland; by descent to (?) Maj. James Francis Fraser-Tytler, 6th Lord Woodhouselee (born pre-1904-d.1996; sold peerage in 1923?); with David M. Koetser, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1952.

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