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Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden). Verso: Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion, in an Oval

Domenico Tintoretto
1560-1635

Christ on the Mount of Olives (Agony in the Garden). Verso: Hercules Killing the Nemean Lion, in an Oval

8 9/16 x 12 1/16 inches (218 x 307 mm)
Brush and brown ink, over black chalk, on blue paper; verso: black chalk.
1981.104

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso at center, left, in pen and brown ink, "339".
Watermark: Letters "C" and reversed "3 or "8"?
Associated names
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Venetian Drawings, 1600-1800. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Berkeley : Gillick, 1960, no. 70 (verso).
The Life of Christ : Drawings from the János Scholz Collection : Italian Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Century. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1964, no. 69.
Scholz, Janos. Italian Master Drawings, 1350-1800, from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Dover, 1976, no. 114, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 294-295.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department