id: 118679 accession number: 1939.68 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.68 updated: 2022-09-22 09:27:38.527000 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 12, 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 (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 * American Art Dealers Association Exhibition. Los Angeles, CA: (1929). * Exhibition of Four Outstanding Venetian Canvases. Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH: (1938). * The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA: (August 1 to-August 31, 1938). * Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA: (June 24-July 24, 1939). --- 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: The Biblical parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-21) tells of a man who feasted and celebrated every day, while a beggar named Lazarus sat starving nearby. Dogs came to lick the sores on the poor man's body. However, when the two men died, Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was consigned to hell. --- 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