id: 97146 accession number: 1916.785 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.785 updated: 2022-10-28 20:24:03.816000 Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, mid 1700s. Follower of Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659–1734). Oil on canvas; framed: 54.6 x 64.8 x 8.9 cm (21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.); unframed: 34.6 x 43.5 cm (13 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.785 title: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid 1700s creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1775 current location: creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sebastiano Ricci (Italian, 1659–1734) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 54.6 x 64.8 x 8.9 cm (21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.); Unframed: 34.6 x 43.5 cm (13 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 12, 1936). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, 1894: "Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition," Held in the Hickox Building, cat. no. 12.
CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 92. --- PROVENANCE Miner K. Kellogg date: footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: Holden Collection date: 1916 footnotes: citations: Miner K. Kellogg; Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland. Holden Collection, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The subject originates in the Gospel of John 7:53-8:11, where Pharisees bring a woman accused of adultery to Christ, attempting to trick him into disobeying the Old Testament precept that she be stoned. In response, Christ interrupted his writing on the ground, stating: "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." The Pharisees, unable to retort, gradually disperse, and Christ eventually sends the woman away with an admonition not to sin again. The subject was popular in 18th-century Venice, partly because magnanimity was an important value, celebrated in visual, musical, and literary culture. The showy, exotic subject and the public presentation of an openly sexualized woman also enjoyed popularity in 18th-century Venetian painting. This work is a copy of the picture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, perhaps by a student (and certainly not by Ricci himself) wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 476; Mentioned: p. 477 url: Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 37, cat. no. 41 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n47 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.785/1916.785_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.785/1916.785_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.785/1916.785_full.tif