Christ Carrying the Cross
Framed: 26 x 20 x 1 inches (66.04 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm)
Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, February 2-March 26, 1967; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, April 19-May 13, 1967, no. 5, as Christ Carrying the Cross (Saint Veronica with the Sudarium).
Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections, The Saint Louis Art Museum, February 25-April 16, 1972, no. 53, as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Genoese Baroque Drawings, University Art Museum, State University of New York, Binghamton, October 1-31, 1972; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, no. 133, as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Washington University Gallery of Art, Saint Louis, MO, September 22-December 3, 1989, unnumbered, as The Way to Calvary.
Master European Drawings from Polish Collections, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993. NAMA addition.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 35, as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Divine Inspiration, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 16-July 14, 2019.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, unnumbered, as Christ Carrying the Cross.
This drawing of Christ stumbling under the weight of the cross powerfully portrays his physical and psychological suffering. The artist’s swift, expressive lines and dabs of white watercolor evoke the nervous energy of the crowd. Fenced in by this chaotic group of tormenters, Jesus finds relief in St. Veronica, who offers to wipe his face with her veil. Directly above the intersecting arms of the cross that frame Christ’s head is Simon of Cyrene. He readies himself to carry Christ’s cross for the remainder of the journey.
Purchased from Geiger,
through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, MO, 1949.
Benno Geiger, Magnasco (Bergamo, Italy: Istituto Italiano D’Arti Grafiche, 1949), 163, (repro.), as Santa Veronica col sudario di Cristo.
Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749), exh. cat. (Louisville, KY: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1967), unpaginated, (repro.), as Christ Carrying the Cross (Saint Veronica with the Sudarium).
Nancy Ward Neilson, Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis Museum of Art, 1972), unpaginated, (repro.), as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Mary Newcome, Genoese Baroque Drawings, exh. cat. (Binghamton, NY: University Art Gallery, State University of New York, 1972), 50, (repro.), as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco (Campomorone, Genoa, Italy: Industrie Grafiche Editoriali, Fratelli Pagano. S.p.a., 1977), 153, 182n62, (repro.), as Cristo e la Veronica.
Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, exh. cat. (St. Louis, MO: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 7, 10, 32, (repro.), as The Way to Calvary.
Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco (Soncino, Italy: Edizioni dei Soncino, 1991), 125, as La Veronica.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 183, (repro.), as The Way to Calvary.
Laura Muti and Daniele de Sarno Prignano, Alessandro Magnasco (Faenza: Edit Faenza, 1994), 76, (repro.), as Andata al Calvario.
Ettore Camesasca and Marco Bona Castellotti, Alessandro Magnasco, 1667-1749 (Milan: Electa, 1996), 278 (repro.), as Cristo deriso.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 123-24, (repro.), as Christ Carrying the Cross.
Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco: i disegni (Genova: Sagep, 1999), 148, 149 (repro.), as La Veronica.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 90, (repro.), as Christ Carrying the Cross.
