- 137
Attributed to Domenico Tintoretto Venice 1560 - 1635
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Description
- Domenico Tintoretto
- The Baptism of Christ
- oil on canvas
Provenance
C.F. Sandborn, London;
With Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, by 1955;
Mr. Robert Blaffer, Houston Texas;
Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas;
Chubb & Sons;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby’s, May 30, 1979, lot 227, as by Jacopo Tintoretto;
There purchased by Robert Dubell;
With William Doyle, New York;
From whom purchased privately on May 18, 1981 by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Frankel.
Literature
Burlington Magazine, "Notable Works of Art now on the Market", June 1955, illustrated pl. X;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, London 1957, Vol. I, p. 174 (under Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Rennaissance, Venetian School, New York 1957, Vol. I, p. 174;
R. Pallucchini & P. Rossi, Tintoretto Le opere sacre e profane, Milan 1982, p. 246, cat. no. A50, illustrated fig. 675 vol. II (under Works of uncertain or erroneous attributions correcting Berenson's attribution from Jacopo Tintoretto to Domenico Tintoretto).
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, London 1957, Vol. I, p. 174 (under Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Rennaissance, Venetian School, New York 1957, Vol. I, p. 174;
R. Pallucchini & P. Rossi, Tintoretto Le opere sacre e profane, Milan 1982, p. 246, cat. no. A50, illustrated fig. 675 vol. II (under Works of uncertain or erroneous attributions correcting Berenson's attribution from Jacopo Tintoretto to Domenico Tintoretto).
Catalogue Note
According to Pallucchini and Rossi (see Literature below) the present painting relates to a Baptism of Christ by Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto in the Museum of Art, Cleveland and to a Baptism of Christ solely by the hand of Domenico in the Prado, Madrid.