Collection Online as of September 29, 2023

The Crucifixion

16th century

follower of Sodoma

(Italian, 1477–1549)

Italy, 16th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 72 x 59 x 4 cm (28 3/8 x 23 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 59 x 47 cm (23 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

Holden Collection 1916.786

Location

not on view

Provenance

James Jackson Jarves

Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, 1884

Holden Collection, 1916.

James Jackson Jarves;

Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, 1884, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 416; Mentioned: p. 417

Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 35, cat. no. 37; Reproduced: p. 66, No. 37 archive.org

Exhibition history

Boston, 1883: "American Exhibition of Foregin Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department,' Jarves Collection,'" pp. 20-22, cat. no 449.

New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection." Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, VII, no. 10 (October 1912), pp. 174-83; author Bryson Burroughs. cat. no 13.

CMA, 1916: "The Inaugural Exhibition of the CMA," cat. no. 36.

CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the CMA," cat. no. 105.

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).