Christ after the Flagellation

Artist Marcantonio Bassetti (Italian, 1586 - 1630)

Date17th century

MediumBrown ink and wash with white heightening over black chalk on green-toned paper squared in graphite

DimensionsUnframed: 12 3/4 × 9 11/16 inches (32.39 × 24.61 cm)
Framed: 26 × 20 × 1 1/4 inches (66.04 × 50.8 × 3.18 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number44-29/3

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Exposition de dessins anciens XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, Gallery Balzac, Paris, November 15 December 1923, no. 25.

Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections, The Saint Lewis Art Museum, February - April 16, 1972, no. 23, as Christ after the Flagellation.

Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, September 22 to December 3, 1989, no. 20, as Chrit Tormented by His Flagellants.

Master European Drawings from Polish Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 17-June 6, 1993.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996.

Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998.

Religious Subjects: A Variety of Approaches, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998.

Divine Inspiration, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 16-July 14, 2019.

Gallery Label

In this moving image, Marcantonio Bassetti focuses on the aftermath of the torture that Jesus endured at the hands of Roman soldiers. He shows the exhausted Christ collapsed on the ground with his hands still bound. The perpetrators tower menacingly over his battered body, which appears to be on the verge of sliding out of the composition and into the viewer’s space. Bassetti heightens the drama of this nighttime scene through his stylistic use of white against a dark background.

Provenance

Johann Waldemar De Rehling Quistgaard (1877-1962), New York, by August 1, 1944;

Purchased from J.W. De Rehling Quistgaard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.

Published References

Exposition de dessins anciens XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, exh. cat. (Paris: Gallery Balzac, 1923), no. 25.

Nancy W. Neilson, Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections, exh. cat. (St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum, 1972), 19-20, (repro.), as Christ after the Flagellation.

Roger Ward and Mark S. Weil, Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1989), 20, (repro.), as Christ Tormented by His Flagellants.

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