Christ Stripped of His Garments

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Lorenzo Garbieri

Title

Christ Stripped of His Garments

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Artist's working dates 1600–1654

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, with black chalk, heightened with lead white (partly discolored), on tan laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso, upper center, in pen and brown ink (in Gabburri hand): "Originale di Lorenzo Garbieri Scolaro dei Caracci, Bolognese/ detto il Nipote dei Caracci"; upper center, in graphite: "b. 1580 d 1654"; inscribed verso, center on mount, in graphite: "Lorenzo Garbieri, called the "Nepote"/ born at Bologna 1580 + 1640. Brought up in the school of Lodovico Carracci, of whose style he was one of the most successful imitators. He selected the most austere and gloomy subjects. To the style of the Carracci he added something of the vigorous & light shadows of Caravaggio/ Bryant/ from Collect. of Dr. Bates, Birmingham"

Dimensions

35.8 × 45.3 cm (14 1/8 × 17 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.5451

IIIF Manifest  The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world.

Learn more.

https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/6985/manifest.json

Extended information about this artwork

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.