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Christ Carried to the Tomb

Jacob Matham (Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
After: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian (Venetian), about 1518–1594)
1594

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 39.4 × 24.2 cm (15 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP7348
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 191; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. XI) 59 I/III; Widerkehr (New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish)
State I/III
Signed Signed and dated in plate, center right: I. Matham Sculp./A° 1594
Marks Watermark [not identified]; verso, in black ink, collector's signature: Fountaine Walker [underlined; Lugt 2545]; collector's stamp in red ink: H. F. S. [Henry Foster Sewall; Lugt 1309]; in graphite: 2363; 75; 270[underlined]/3
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, within image, lower left: I. Tintoret Inue.; and in lower margin, left: Innocui cernis laceratum corpus Iesu,/Qui roseo nostrum deleuit sanguine crimen:; right: Condetur tumulo, mox surrecturus in auras,/Æterne nobis referans penetralia vite. C. Schonaeus.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.