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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.
Published ReferencesMarcello Oretti, "Descrizione delle Pitture che orano le Case dei Cittadini della Citta di Bologna." Bologna Biblioteca Comunale, Ms. 109, Part I, carta 6 (in the Casa Marchesini on the Strada delle Lamme).

G. Zanotti, Storia dell' Accademia Clementina (Bologna, 1739), 57.

L. Crespi, Felsina Pittrice. Tomo terzo (Rome, 1769), 223.

Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact (exhibition catalogue) (Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1953,), cat. no. 83.

Art News (April, 1956), 41, illus.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 183, illus. (b-w).

The North Carolina Churchman, 54, no. 4 (April, 1964), illus. cover.

Jane Hall, Raleigh, NC: The News and Observer (April 6, 1958), illus.

Renato Roli, Pittura Bolognese: 1650-1800; dal Cignani ai Gandolfi (Bologna: Edizoni Alfa Bologna, 1977), 106, 156, note 63, 135, illus. pl. 160b.

Mira Pajes Merriman, Guiseppe Maria Crespi (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1980), cat. no. 64, illus. 253, fig. 145.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), detail illus. (b-w) 202.

The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1986), cat. no. 144, illus. 423, detail (color) 424, same in Italian edition.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (exhibition catalogue) (Bologna: Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, 1990], ixxxix, clx, ccviii -ccix.

Daniele Benati, ed., Disegni Emiliani del Sei-Settecento: Come nascono I dipinti (Milano: Carimonte Banca S.p.A., 1991), 225, 226, illus. (color) 226, pl. 61.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 191.

David Steel, "A Bolognese Legacy: Emilian Paintings in the Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview, (Winter 1991-92), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 7.

David Sedaris, "The Resurrection of Christ" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 208, 211 (detail).

Marco Riccomini, Giuseppe Maria Crespi: i Disegni e le Stampe (catalogue raisonne) (Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 2014), illus.Exhibition HistoryDayton, OH, Dayton Art Institute, "Flight: Fantasy, Faith, Fact," December 17, 1953-February 21, 1954, cat. no. 83.

Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, "The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Paintings of the Sixteenth and Sevententh Centuries," September 10-November 10, 1986; Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, December 19, 1986-February 16, 1987; New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 26-May 24, 1987, cat. no. 144.

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

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