id: 104695
accession number: 1923.1053
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1053
updated: 2023-03-20 10:12:11.172000
Venetian Set: Entombment of Christ, 1739–43. John Baptist Jackson (British, 1701-c. 1780), after Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592). Chiaroscuro woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1923.1053
title: Venetian Set: Entombment of Christ
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creation date: 1739–43
creation date earliest: 1739
creation date latest: 1743
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creditline: Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
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culture: England, 18th century
technique: chiaroscuro woodcut
department: Prints
collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Kainen 19
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CREATORS
* John Baptist Jackson (British, 1701-c. 1780) - artist
* Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592) - artist
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Printing in Color
opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00
Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00
Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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Jackson is the best known 18th-century specialist in chiaroscuro woodcuts. Woodcuts were not popular at this time, and the chiaroscuro technique never took hold in England, but he may have developed his interest in the medium from the Italian nobleman and printmaker Antonio Zanetti who reproduced his collection of Parmigianino drawings as chiaroscuros when in England around 1720. Jackson moved to Venice, where, in 1739, the great English patron Consul Joseph Smith and two other supporters commissioned him to produce chiaroscuro woodcuts after 17 paintings by the Venetian masters Titian, Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, and Jacobo Bassano. Jackson completed the series in 1743, which was published by J. B. Pasquali in 1745 as a bound volume. These reproductions of masterpieces were meant as souvenirs for the tourist trade and the young gentlemen taking the Grand Tour of the Continent to further their education. Jackson's Venetian Set was the first large-scale group of chiaroscuro woodcuts to reproduce oil paintings. In order to capture the effects of color and light in the paintings, he created complex, virtuosic woodcuts with a multitude of lines and tones.
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