The Mission

ca. 1710

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Italian, 1665-1747

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About the Artwork

Title The Mission

Artwork Date ca. 1710

Artist Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Life Dates 1665-1747

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

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 20 15/16 × 24 15/16 inches (53.2 × 63.4 cm) Framed: 24 3/4 × 28 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (62.9 × 73.3 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Jacob Heimann

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. 38.88

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Provenance

ca. 1928, Marchese Zacchia Rondanini collection (Bologna, Italy);
by 1935 (Carlo Foresti, Milan, Italy);
1938, (Jacob Heimann, Milan, Italy and New York, New York, USA);
1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Dedalo, vol. 1. 1921, p. 654, p. 587 (repr.).

Valeri, F. M. "Palazzi e Ville Bolognese. Il Palazzo Zacchia Rondanini Reggiani," Cronache d’Arte, vol. 5, no. 3 (May-June 1928): p. 215, (fig. 8).

Mostra del Settecento Bolognese. Exh. cat., Palazzo Comunale. Bologna, 1935, p. 11, cat. 25, [lent by Carlo Foresti, Milan (dated "verso 1710", cat. by Roberto Longhi)].

Rathbone, P.T. "’The Jesuit Mission’ by Giuseppe Maria Crespi," Bulletin of the DIA 18, no. 4 (January 1939): pp. 4-6, (repr.).

Three Baroque Masters: Strozzi, Crespi, Piazzetta. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art, City Art Museum. Baltimore, St. Louis, 1944, p. 31, no. 20, (repr.) [intro. by H. Teitz].

Richardson, E.P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 33, no. 495 [dates picture to ca. 1712, and shortly before the Seven Sacraments].

Merriman, M. P. The Paintings of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University. 1968, cat. 224, (fig. 142).

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th century Italian paintings in North American collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 59.

Merriman, M. P. Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Milan, 1980, pp. 124, 313-16, cat. 276, (repr.).

Merriman, M. P. "Comedy, Reality and the Development of Genre Painting in Italy," in Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy, John T. Spike, ed. Exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, September 20-December 7, 1986, p. 49 [not in the exhibition, but mentioned in the essay].

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1665-1747. Exh. cat., Staatsgallerie, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Pushkin Museum. Stuttgart, Bologna, Moscow, December 14, 1990 - February 17, 1991, p. 470 [entry by Marion Keiner, who references Detroit version of "Mission" to Heidelberg version], p. 480.

Jesuit Art In North American Collections. Exh. cat., Marquette University, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art. Milwaukee, 1991, cat. 4, p. 35, (repr.) [entry prepared by J. Patrice Marandal].

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 9, 60-62, cat. no. 19 [entry by A. Derstine].

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