id: 118679 accession number: 1939.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.68 updated: 2025-02-09 00:29:57.570000 Lazarus and the Rich Man, c. 1550. Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592). Oil on canvas; framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1939.68 title: Lazarus and the Rich Man title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1550 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1555 current location: 217 Italian Baroque creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jacopo Bassano (Italian, c. 1510–1592) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts opening date: 1949-09-30T04:00:00 Classic to Baroque: A Style Change in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-November 13, 1949). title: The Venetian Tradition opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00 The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). title: The Italian Heritage; an exhibition of works of art lent from American collections for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA) opening date: 1967-05-17T04:00:00 The Italian Heritage; an exhibition of works of art lent from American collections for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art (CRIA). Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (May 17-August 29, 1967). title: Jacopo Bassano: A Quadricentennial Retrospective opening date: 1992-09-05T04:00:00 Jacopo Bassano: A Quadricentennial Retrospective. Museo Civico, Sassoferrato, Italy (September 5-December 6, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (January 23-April 25, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'American Art Dealers Association Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA: (1929).', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Four Outstanding Venetian Canvases. Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH: (1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA: (August 1 to-August 31, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-08-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA: (June 24-July 24, 1939).', 'opening_date': '1939-06-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Simonetti (Rome, Italy) 1905 date: footnotes: citations: Dan Fellows Platt, 1873-1928 (Englewood, New Jersey), upon his death, held in trust by the estate date: footnotes: citations: Estate of Dan Fellows Platt, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1939. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901. page number: Mentioned: Vol. IX, pt. 4, P. 1147, 1252; Reproduced: P. 1149, fig. 812 url: Perkins, F. Mason "Dipinti Italiani nella Raccolta Platt." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1911): 145-149. page number: Mentioned: P. 147, n. 2 url: Brown, Alice Van Vechten, and William Rankin. A Short History of Italian Painting. London, United Kingdom: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1914. page number: Reproduced: p. 343 url: Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company, and Jessie Niles Burness. Sculpture and Mural Paintings in the Beautiful Courts, Colonnades and Avenues of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco 1915. San Francisco: Robert A. Reid, official view Book publisher, 1915. page number: Reproduced: no. 4009, vol. I; p. 456 vol. II url: Perkins, F. Mason "Miscellanea." Rassegna d'Arte Antica e Moderna (1915): 121-125. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 121-122 url: Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Pietro de'Marescalchi detto lo Spada." Belvedere VIII (1929): 211-225. page number: Mentioned: P. 214 url: Venturi, Adolfo. "Jacopo Bassano." L'Arte XXXII, no. 16 (1929): 107-125. page number: Mentioned: P. 117-121; Reproduced: Fig. 8 url: Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Bologna: Casa Apollo, 1931. page number: Mentioned: P. 343 url: Francis, Henry S. "Lazarus and the Rich Man by Jacopo Bassano." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXVI no.10 (December, 1939): 155-158. page number: Reproduced: p. 156 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 56 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n64 Longhi, Roberto. "Calepino Veneziano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte II (1948): 41-55. page number: Mentioned: P. 54 url: Magagnato, Licisco. "In Margine alla Mostra dei Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte VI (1952): 220-229. page number: Mentioned: P. 226; reproduced: P. 225, fig. 240 url: Pigler, Andor. Barockthemen, eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Budapest, Hungary: Verlag der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1956. page number: Reproduced: p. 369, vol. I url: Magagnato, Licisco. "Jacopo Bassano intorno al 1540." Critica Critica d'Arte No. 13-14 (1956): 103-106. page number: Mentioned: P. 106; Reproduced: Pl. 110, 111 url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Venetian School. New York, NY: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. page number: Reproduced: p. 17. vol. !, p. 1197, vol. II url: Fiocco, Giuseppe. "Francesco Vecellio e Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XI (1957): 91-96. page number: Mentioned: P. 96 url: Podesta, Attilio. "La Mostra di Jacopo Bassano." Emporium CXXVI, no. 7 (July 1957): 3-23. page number: Reproduced: P. 14 url: Muraro, Michelangelo. "The Jacopo Bassano Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 99, no. 654 (September 1957): 291-99. page number: Mentioned: P. 295-296; reproduced: fig. 1 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/872092 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 421 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n77 Nicolson, Benedict. Hendrick Terbrugghen. London, United Kingdom: L. Humphries, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 102 url: Zampetti, Pietro. Jacopo Bassano. Roma, Italy: Istituto poligrafico dello Stato, Libreria dello Stato, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 36, pl. XLII-XLIV url: Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 403 url: Arslan, Edoardo. I Bassano. Milano: Ceschina, 1960. page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, p. 65-66; 84; 90; 95, n.48; 96, n. 57; 97; 166; 317; Reproduced: Vol. II, pls. 94-98 url: Askew, Pamela. "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti." The Art Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 1961): 21-45. page number: Mentioned: P. 32 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3047929 Jaffe, Michael. “Cleveland Museum of Art: The Figurative Arts of the West, c. 1400-1800.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 457–467. page number: Mentioned: P. 467 url: Ballarin, Alessandro. "L'Orto del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XVIII (1964): 55-72. page number: Mentioned: P. 66-67; reproduced: fig. 72 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n122 Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 141 url: Committee to Rescue Italian Art, and Wildenstein and Company. The Italian Heritage; An Exhibition of Works of Art Lent from American Collections for the Benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, May 17-August 29, 1967, Wildenstein. New York, NY: Wildenstein Galleries. page number: Reproduced: p. 27 url: Tomory, P. A. "Profane Love in Italian Early and High Baroque Painting, The Transmission of Emotive Experience." In Essays Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. In Two Parts. Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewineeds.,182-187. [London]: Phaidon Press, 1967. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, P. 185; reproduced: XXV, pl. 3 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 98 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n122 Ballarin, Alessandro. "Introduzione ad un Catalogo dei Disegni di Jacopo Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXIII (1969): 85-114. page number: Mentioned: P. 104, 106; reproduced: fig. 372 url: Ballarin, Alessandro. "Un Ritratto Inedito del Bassano." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXV (1971): 268-271. page number: Mentioned: P. 270-271; reproduced: fig. 372 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 18, 279,573 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 114 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n134 Bialostocki, Jan. "Le Vocabulaire Visuel de Jacopo Bassano et son Stilus Humilis." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XXXI (1978): 169-173. page number: Mentioned: P. 170-171; reproduced: fig. 1 url: Larousse (Firm). Larousse dictionary of painters. London, United Kingdom: Hamlyn, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 15 url: 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: Mentioned: p. 304-306; Reproduced: p. 304 url: Kitaj, R. B., and Timothy Hyman. "A Return to London" IN Kitaj Paintings, Drawings, Pastels. John Ashebury, Joe Shannon, Jane Livingston, 41. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 41 url: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo e gallerie nazionali di Capodimonte. The Age of Caravaggio. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985. page number: url: Brown, Beverly Louise, Paola Marini, and Livia Alberton Vinco Da Sesso. Jacopo Bassano, c. 1510-1592. Bologna, Italy: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1992. page number: Mentioned: p. 62; Reproduced: p. 63 url: Bortolotli, Luca. "Jacopo Bassano 1992." Venezia Cinquecento IV (1992): 163-194. page number: Reproduced:P. 175, fig. 7 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Mentioned: p. 247 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Hadjinicolaou, Nicos. O Gkreko stin Italia kai i italiki techni. Athina, Greece: Ioniki Trapeza, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 100, pl. 1 url: Ballarin, Alessandro. Jacopo Bassano. Cittadella Padova, Italy: Bertoncello, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: Aikema, Bernard. Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, Ca. 1535-1600. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 50, fig. 37 url: Brown, Patricia Fortini. The Renaissance in Venice: A World Apart. London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 108, no. 73 url: Gutbrod, Helga. "'Samson and Delila': Rembrandts Grisaille im Rijksmuseum Amsterdam." In Festschrift für Christian Lenz: von Duccio bis Beckmann ; anlässlich seines 60. Geburtstages am 11. Mai 1998. Billeter, Felix, Helga Gutbrod, Christian Lenz, and Andrea Pophanken, 29-43. Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag Blick in die Welt, 1998. page number: Reproduced: P. 31, no. 2 url: Calı̀, Maria. La pittura del Cinquecento. Torino, Italy: UTET, 2000. page number: Reproduced: p. 296 url: Mack, Rosamond E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 31, fig. 19; p. 85, fig. 78 url: Hornik, Heidi J., and Mikeal C. Parsons. Illuminating Luke. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 2003. page number: Reproduced: p. 84, fig. 42 url: Fontana, Renzo. "Jacopo Bassano a Vicenza. La pala de Sant'Eleuterio: questioni iconografiche e cronologiche." Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 61 (2004): 83-95. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 86, fig. 7 url: Brucher, Günter. Geschichte der Venezianischen Malerei. Wien: Böhlau, 2007. page number: Reproduced: p. 364, Abb. 202 url: Dal Pozzolo, Enrico Maria. Pittura veneta. Milano, Italy: 24 ore cultura, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 215-217; Reproduced: fig. 84 url: Bolandrini, Beatrice. "I Palazzi Visconti a Brignano Gera D'adda." Lo Spazio Del Collezionismo Nello Stato Di Milano (secoli Xvii - Xviii) / a Cura Di Andrea Spiriti (2013): 247-302. page number: Mentioned: P. 265 url: Trentini, Francesco. Essere Altrove: Diaspora e Immagini Nella Venezia dei Carmini. Milano: Edizioni Unicopli, settembre 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 351, fig. 135 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.68/1939.68_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.68/1939.68_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.68/1939.68_full.tif