Entombment of Christ (Carracci)

Painting by Annibale Carracci

Entombment of Christ (c. 1595) by Annibale Carracci

Entombment of Christ is a c.1595 oil on copper painting by Annibale Carracci, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art[1]

Sisto Badalocchio, Christ Carried to the Tomb, circa 1607, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

According to Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Annibale Carracci's main 17th-century biographers, the painting was produced for Astorre Sampieri, an important clergyman in Bologna. Malvasia adds the details that it was a painting on copper and that Sampieri commissioned it to give to a major but unnamed figure in Rome but thought so highly of it that he kept the original for itself and instead gave the figure a (now lost) copy made by Carracci's then pupil Guido Reni. It is usually dated to around 1595, the year in which Annibale, his cousin Ludovico and his brother Agostino completed the Palazzo Sampieri frescoes for Sampieri, complemented by Annibale's own Christ and the Samaritan Woman.[2]

Several copies of the work survive, particularly by Sisto Badalocchio, leading scholars to theorise that there must be a lost original of the composition by Carracci himself.[2] The work reappeared on the art market and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum in 1998 as another Badalocchio copy,[3] only later being reattributed to Carracci himself.[3]

## Gallery

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* Ludovico Carracci, Trinity with the Dead Christ, circa 1590, Pinacoteca vaticana, Vatican City

## References

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1. ^ "Catalogue entry".
2. ^ a b Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Badalocchio's 'Entombment of Christ' from Reggio: A New Document and Some Related Paintings, in The Burlington Magazine, n. 122, 1980, pp. 185-186.
3. ^ a b Keith Christiansen, Annibale Carracci's 'Burial of Christ' Rediscovered, in The Burlington Magazine, n. 141, 1999, pp. 414-418.

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Annibale Carracci

Paintings|

* List of paintings
* The Laughing Youth (1580s)
* The Beaneater (1580–1590)
* Butcher's Shop (1583)
* Crucifixion with Saints (1583)
* Corpse of Christ (1583–1585)
* An Allegory of Truth and Time (1584–1585)
* Baptism of Christ (1585)
* Pietà with Saints Clare, Francis and Mary Magdalene (1585)
* The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (c. 1585)
* The Vision of Saint Eustace (1585–1586)
* Two Children Teasing a Cat (1587–1588)
* Madonna and Child with Saints (1588)
* Venus with a Satyr and Two Cupids (1588–1590)
* Lamentation (1587–1590)
* Self-Portrait in Profile (1590s)
* Assumption of the Virgin (Madrid; 1590)
* The Virgin Appears to Saint Luke and Saint Catherine (1592)
* Self-Portrait (1593)
* Madonna and Child with Saints (1593)
* Resurrection (1593)
* Madonna and Child in Glory over the City of Bologna (c. 1593)
* Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1593–1594)
* Saint Roch Giving Alms (1587–1595)
* Fishing (before 1595)
* Hunting (before 1595)
* River Landscape (c. 1590)
* Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594–1595)
* Entombment of Christ (c. 1595)
* Venus, Adonis and Cupid (c. 1595)
* Camerino Farnese
* The Choice of Hercules (1596)
* Christ in Glory with Saints and Odoardo Farnese (c. 1597–1598)
* The Death of Saint Francis (1597–1598)
* Saint Margaret of Antioch (1599)
* Christ Appearing to Saint Anthony Abbot (1598–1600)
* Christ Crowned with Thorns (1598–1600)
* Christ Crowned with Thorns (Bologna) (c. 1598–1600)
* The Madonna and Sleeping Child with the Infant St John the Baptist (c. 1599–1600)
* Pietà (c. 1600)
* The Three Marys at the Tomb (c. 1600)
* Rinaldo and Armida (c. 1601)
* Assumption of the Virgin (Rome; 1600–1601)
* Saint Gregory at Prayer (c. 1600–1602)
* Domine quo vadis? (c. 1602)
* Portable Altarpiece with Pietà and Saints (1603)
* Pietà with Two Angels (c. 1603)
* Sleeping Venus (c. 1603)
* Self-Portrait on an Easel (1603–1604)
* The Martyrdom of St Stephen (c. 1603–1604)
* Portrait of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi (1604) (disputed)
* Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
* The Dead Christ Mourned (c. 1604)
* Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1604)
* Danaë (1600–1605)
* Saint Didacus of Alcalá Presenting Juan de Herrera's Son to Christ (c. 1606)
* Pietà with Saint Francis and Saint Mary Magdalene (1602–1607)
* The Loves of the Gods (1608)
* The Birth of the Virgin (1605–1609)

Related|

* Agostino Carracci (brother)
* Ludovico Carracci (cousin)
* Antonio Carracci (nephew)
* Francesco Carracci (nephew)
* The Carracci
* Accademia degli Incamminati
* Palazzo Sampieri frescoes
* Palazzo Magnani

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