Christ Disrobed on the Cross, ca. 1680

  • Michel Corneille the Younger, French, 1642-1708

Pen and brush in brown ink over black chalk and graphite with white heightenting on blue wove paper

  • Sheet: 13 7/16 × 16 7/16 inches (34.1 × 41.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR75.2

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)

May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 158

1894-1906, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1906-1909, Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 167, no. 73. Rosenberg, Pierre. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections, trans. Catherine Johnson. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, p. 147, no. 30 (pl. 53). Perlove, Shelley and George S. Keyes, ed. Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections: The Age of Bernini, Rembrandt, and Poussin. Notre Dame, 2015, pp. 248-249, (fig. 1) (ill.).

Michel Corneille the Younger, Christ Disrobed on the Cross, ca. 1680, pen and brush in brown ink over black chalk and graphite with white heightenting on blue wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR75.2.