id: 127746
accession number: 1950.400
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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
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creation date: 1580s
creation date earliest: 1580
creation date latest: 1589
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creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Italy, 16th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Italian 16th & 17th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jacopo Tintoretto (Italian, 1518–1594) - artist
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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.)
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
1738-1775 Count Schulenberg (Zell), sold, Christie's, London, April 12-13, 1775, to William Markham, Bishop of Chester;
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by inheritance to his son, Colonel William T. Markham, by 1853 until at least 1869;
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Captain R. A. Markham, until at least 1910;
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E. G. Markham, London and Southcliff, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, until 1923;
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[Durlacher Brothers, London, from 1923 until at least 1929];
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Arthur Sachs, Paris and New York, by 1931;
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[Jacques Seligman & Co., New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Thode, Henry. Tintoretto. Bielefeld und Liepzig, Germany: Velhagen & Klasing, 1901.
page number: Mentioned: p. 108; Reproduced: p. 139
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Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'Arte Italiana. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1901.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. IX, pt. 4,P. 615
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Holborn, John Bernard Stoughton. Jacopo Robusti Called Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: Bell, 1903.
page number: Reproduced: p. 104
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Bryan, Michael, and George Charles Williamson. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. New York: Macmillan, 1903.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. IV, p. 261
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D'Anvers, N. Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: G. Newnes, 1905.
page number: Reproduced: p. XLIV
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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
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Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913.
page number: Mentioned: Vol. 3, P. 1313
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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
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Pittaluga, Mary. Il Tintoretto. Bologna, Italy: N. Zanichelli, 1925.
page number: Reproduced: p. 257
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Fosca, François. Tintoret. Paris, France: A. Michel, 1929.
page number: Reproduced: p. 147
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Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milano, Italy: U. Hoepli, 1931.
page number: Reproduced: pl. ccccvn
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Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, NY: E. Wyhe, 1933.
page number: Reproduced: vol. III, pl. 547
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Barbantini, Nino. La mostra del Tintoretto: catalogo delle opere. Venezia, Italy: Ca' Pesaro, 1937.
page number: Reproduced: p. 179
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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
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Bouchage, Luc. "Louvre to California: Today's Collectors: Arthur Sachs." ARTnews XLV (October 1946): 75.
page number: Mentioned: P. 75
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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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
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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
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Canaday, John. Metropolitan Seminars in Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29, pl. E12
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Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960; Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962.
page number: Reproduced: p. 99
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Wethey, Harold E. El Greco and His School. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1962.
page number: Reproduced: vol. II, p. 35
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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
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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
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Dürst, Hans Joachim. Alessandro Magnasco. Teufen, Switzerland: Niggli, 1966.
page number: Mentioned: p. 100; Reproduced: p. 177, no. 25
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Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: no. 142
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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
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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
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Museo del Prado. Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas. Madrid, Spain: El Museo, 1972.
page number: Reproduced: p. 688, no. 397
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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
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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
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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
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Osler, W. Roscoe. Tintoretto. London, United Kingdom: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882.
page number: Reproduced: p. 97
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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
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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
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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
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