id: 127746 accession number: 1950.400 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.400 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:16.117000 Baptism of Christ, 1580s. Workshop of Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594). Oil on canvas; framed: 200 x 286.5 x 14 cm (78 3/4 x 112 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.); unframed: 169 x 251.4 cm (66 9/16 x 99 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1950.400 title: Baptism of Christ title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1580s creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1589 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund 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 Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 200 x 286.5 x 14 cm (78 3/4 x 112 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 169 x 251.4 cm (66 9/16 x 99 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'British Institution. London, United Kingdom (1859).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Leeds, United Kingdom (1868).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters. Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1873).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Exhibition of the Arthur Sachs Collection. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (July 22-October 18, 1946); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (1947).', 'opening_date': '1946-07-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE 1738-1775 Count Schulenberg (Zell), sold, Christie's, London, April 12-13, 1775, to William Markham, Bishop of Chester; date: footnotes: citations: by inheritance to his son, Colonel William T. Markham, by 1853 until at least 1869; date: footnotes: citations: Captain R. A. Markham, until at least 1910; date: footnotes: citations: E. G. Markham, London and Southcliff, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, until 1923; date: footnotes: citations: [Durlacher Brothers, London, from 1923 until at least 1929]; date: footnotes: citations: Arthur Sachs, Paris and New York, by 1931; date: footnotes: citations: [Jacques Seligman & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Thode, Henry. Tintoretto. Bielefeld und Liepzig, Germany: Velhagen & Klasing, 1901. page number: Mentioned: p. 108; Reproduced: p. 139 url: Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901. page number: Mentioned: Vol. IX, pt. 4,P. 615 url: Holborn, John Bernard Stoughton. Jacopo Robusti Called Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: Bell, 1903. page number: Reproduced: p. 104 url: Bryan, Michael, and George Charles Williamson. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. New York: Macmillan, 1903. page number: Mentioned: Vol. IV, p. 261 url: D'Anvers, N. Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: G. Newnes, 1905. page number: Reproduced: p. XLIV url: Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907. page number: Mentioned: Vol. XXXIII, P. 194 url: Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913. page number: Mentioned: Vol. 3, P. 1313 url: Bercken, Erich von der, and August L. Mayer. Jacopo Tintoretto. München, Germany: R. Piper & Co, 1923. page number: Mentioned: vol. I, p. 194-196; Reproduced: vol. II, pl. 89 url: Pittaluga, Mary. Il Tintoretto. Bologna, Italy: N. Zanichelli, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 257 url: Fosca, François. Tintoret. Paris, France: A. Michel, 1929. page number: Reproduced: p. 147 url: Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milano, Italy: U. Hoepli, 1931. page number: Reproduced: pl. ccccvn url: Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, NY: E. Wyhe, 1933. page number: Reproduced: vol. III, pl. 547 url: Barbantini, Nino. La mostra del Tintoretto: catalogo delle opere. Venezia, Italy: Ca' Pesaro, 1937. page number: Reproduced: p. 179 url: Museo del Prado, Fernando Alvarezde Sotomayor, and Paul Wescher. Les chefs-d'œuvre du Musée du Prado. Bâle: Les Éditions Holbein, 1939. page number: Mentioned: P. 36, no. 75 url: Bouchage, Luc. "Louvre to California: Today's Collectors: Arthur Sachs." ARTnews XLV (October 1946): 75. page number: Mentioned: P. 75 url: Howe, Thomas C., Jr. "The Arthur Sachs Collection." Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor IV, no. 7 (November 1946): 58-63. page number: Mentioned: P. 59 url: Tietze, Hans. Tintoretto: the Paintings and Drawings. With 300 Illus. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon Press; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1948 page number: Reproduced: p. 348 url: Francis, Henry S. "Baptism of Christ by Tintoretto." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXVIII, no. 2 (February, 1951):25-26. page number: Mentioned: p. 25-26; Reproduced: p. 32-25 url: Comstock, Helen. " The Connoisseur in America: A Venetian XVI Century Painting." The Connoisseur 128, no. 522 (August 1951): 61-68. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 61-62 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0033 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: Phaidon Publishers; distributed by Garden City Books, 1957. page number: Mentioned: Vol. I, P. 171; Reproduced: Vol. II, pl. 1301 url: 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. 416 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n76 Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: Canaday, John. Metropolitan Seminars in Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 29, pl. E12 url: Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960; Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. page number: Reproduced: p. 99 url: Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1962. page number: Reproduced: vol. II, p. 35 url: 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. 460; reproduced: P. 462, fig. 3 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. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n118 Alsop, Joseph, and Sherman E. Lee. Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY.: Art in America, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 28 url: Dürst, Hans Joachim. Alessandro Magnasco. Teufen, Switzerland: Niggli, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 100; Reproduced: p. 177, no. 25 url: Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 142 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. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n118 De Vecchi, Pierluigi. L'opera completa del Tintoretto. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1970. page number: Mentioned: p. 124; Reproduced: no. 246 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: Mentioned: p. 199, p. 277, p. 574 url: Museo del Prado. Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas. Madrid, Spain: El Museo, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 688, no. 397 url: Rossi, Paola and Rodolfo Pallucchini. Tintoretto. Milano, Italy: Electa, 1990. page number: Mentioned: Vol. II, p. 224, no. 432; Reproduced: vol. III, p. 577, fig. 550 url: Jaffé, Michael. Rubens and Italy. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 37, p. 73, p. 109, n. 72, p. 115, n. 37; Reproduced: Pl. 244 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. 109 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n129 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. 434-436; Reproduced: p. 435 url: Osler, W. Roscoe. Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882. page number: Reproduced: p. 97 url: Colnaghi Foundation, and Rubenshuis (Antwerp, Belgium). David Bowie's Tintoretto: Angel Foretelling the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. London : Colnaghi Foundation, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 104; Reproduced: p. 105, fig. 88 url: Tintoretto, Benjamin van Beneden, Irene Brooke, Maja Neerman, Christina Currie, Xavier F. Salomon, and John Julius Norwich. David Bowie's Tintoretto: The Lost Church of San Geminiano. 2019. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 120-121; Fig. 108 and Fig. 108b url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: 56-57 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.400/1950.400_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.400/1950.400_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1950.400/1950.400_full.tif