Entombment of Christ

ca. between 1659 and 1660

Luca Giordano Italian, 1634-1705

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Entombment of Christ

Artwork Date ca. between 1659 and 1660

Artist Luca Giordano

Life Dates 1634-1705

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 83 1/2 × 62 3/4 inches (212.1 × 159.4 cm) Framed: 98 1/4 × 77 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (249.6 × 196.9 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 72.434

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Provenance

Maria Carolina di Borbone, Duchess of Berry (Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi, Venice, Italy);
April 19, 1865, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction Duchess of Berry, lot 70;
private collection (France);
(Heim Gallery, Paris, France);
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens & Modernes Composant la Galerie du Palais Vendramini, à Venise et Appartenant à Mme. la Duchesse de Berry..." Sales cat., Hotel Drouot, Paris, April 19, 1865, p. 16, no. 70.

Ferrari, Oreste. "The Entombment: A Youthful Work by Luca Giordano." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 54, no. 1 (1975): 24–32, pp. 24–32, fig. 1 (ill.).

Kramer, Mariam. "News and Views Abroad: Exhibitions in Britain." Canadian Collector (September/October 1982): 64, p. 64 (ill.).

Whitfield, Clovis and Jane Martineau, eds. Painting in Naples 1606–1705: From Caravaggio to Giordano. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington. London, 1982, pp. 171–172, cat. 63 (ill.).

La Peinture Napolitaine de Caravage à Giordano. Exh. cat., Grand Palais. Paris, 1983, pp. 221–222, cat. 34 (ill.).

La Pittura a Napoli da Caravaggio a Luca Giordano. Exh. cat., Palazzo Reale. Torino, 1983, pp. 64–65, figs. 42–43 (ill.); p. 126.

Spinosa, Nicola. La pittura napoletana del '600. Milan, 1984, p. 434, pl. 435.

Scavizzi, Giuseppe. "New Drawings by Luca Giordano." Master Drawings 37, no. 2 (1999): 103–137, p. 130, n. 5.

Ferrari Oreste, and Giuseppe Scavizzi. Luca Giordano: L'opera completa. Naples, 2000, vol. 1: pp. 30, 262, cat. A78; vol. 2: pp. 506-507, 946, pl. 155 (ill.).

Bissell, R. Ward, Andria Derstine and Dwight Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 10, 98–101, no. 31 (ill.).

Goldin, Marco. Tutankhamon Caravaggio Van Gogh: La sera e I notturni dagli Egizi al Novecento. Exh. cat., Basilica Palladiana. Treviso, 2014, pp. 98, 448, 475–476 (ill.), 541–542, no. 105.

Derstine, Andria. "The Detroit Institute of Arts and Italian Baroque Painting." In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America, ed. Edgar Peters Bowron. University Park, 2017, p. 99.

Úbeda de los Cobos, Andrés. Luca Giordano at the Museo Nacional del Prado: catalogue raisonné. Madrid, 2017, pp. 45–46 (ill.).

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Luca Giordano, Entombment of Christ, ca. between 1659 and 1660, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 72.434.