The Scourging of Christ

Artist Francesco II Bassano (Francesco II dal Ponte) Italian, 1549–1592

Artist Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo dal Ponte) Italian, circa 1510–1592

Datecirca 1580–1585

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions37 1/2 x 46 1/4 in. (95.3 x 117.5 cm)
Frame: 47 x 56 in. (119.4 x 142.2 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.50

On View

On view

ProvenanceDemotte Inc., Paris and New York, by 1931; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence, before 1948, sold to Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1948; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesWart Arslan, I Bassano, 2 vols. (Bologna, 1931), I, 282 (as Leandro Bassano.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 102, illus. (b-w) 103 (as Leandro Bassano).

Wart Arslan, I Bassano, 2 vols. (Bologna, 1960), I, 232 (tentatively attributed to Giambattista Bassano), I, 267 (as Leandro Bassano).

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, Vol. 3 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1973), 48-49 (as Giambattista), illus. fig. 88.

Methods of the Masters: Painting on Canvas (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), cat. no. 6.

Jean Cadogan, Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings II. Italy and Spain Fourteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Hartford, 1991), 62.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus (b-w) 180.

Jacopo Bassano c. 1510-1592 (exhibition catalogue) (Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1993), 431.

Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Methods of the Masters: Painting on Canvas," October 2, 1986-August 30,1987, cat. no. 6.

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