Alessandro Algardi
Italian, 1598-1654

Crucifix, c. 1646

Bronze
Overall dimensions of cross: 188.9 x 75.6 cm (74 x 30 in.)
Overall dimensions of corpus: 77.5 x 59.2 cm (30.5 x 23 in.)
Overall height: 188.9 cm
Overall width: 75.6 cm
Section width: 9.2 cm
Depth: 2.2 cm
Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation Endowment; Mrs. J. Ward Thorne Fund; restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krehbiel, Mr. and Mrs. John Jeffry Louis, III, and Harry Root, 2004.42

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Bartolomeo dal Pozzo, Le Vite de' Pittori, degli Scultori, et Architetti Veronesi (Verona: G. Berno, 1718), p. 309.

M. Heimberger Ravalli, Alessandro Algardi Scultore (Rome: Istituto Studi Romani Editori, 1973), cat. 59f.

F. Negri Arnoldi, "Origine e diffusione del Crocifisso Barocco con l'immagine del Cristo Vivente," in Storia dell'Arte n.20 (Firenze, 1974), p. 71.

G.P. Bellori, Le vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti moderni, ed. E. Bore (Turin, 1976), p. 410. (Originally published 1672).

J. Montagu, Alessandro Algardi (New Haven and London, 1985), L.28, p.341, pp. 85-86, 88, 198, 200, 209, 226, cat. 16.C.21, fig. 68.

Diana Dethloff, ed., Drawing: masters and methods: Raphael to Redon (London, 1992), pp. 136-144.

J. Montagu, ed., Alessandro Algardi: l'altra faccia del barocco, exh. cat. (Rome, 1999), pp. 66-67, no. 33, and pp. 288-89, no. 93.

Ownership History

Probably Bartolomeo dal Pozzo (d. 1722), Verona, by 1722 [according to invoice from Trinity Fine Art, Limited, London, 10 October 2003, in curatorial file]. Santa Maria in Organo, Verona [according to source cited above]. Imbert, Milan [according to source cited above]. Julius Goldschmidt, London, by 1954 [according to source cited above]. Private Collection, London [according to source cited above]. Trinity Fine Art, Limited, London, by 2003 [according to source cited above]; sold to the Art Institute, 2004.