The Disciples at the Tomb
This etching is from a group of sixteen made by Fragonard in Paris around 1763-64, based on black chalk drawings he had made in Italy a few years earlier for his friend and patron, the abbé de Saint-Non. Of the sixteen, ten were based on Venetian models. This plate, based on a black chalk drawing, excerpts four figures from a vast composition by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, 1519-1594), Saint Roch in Prison, Visited by an Angel, in the church of San Rocco, Venice.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Disciples at the Tomb
- Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
- Artist: After Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian, Venice 1518/19–1594 Venice)
- Date: 1764
- Medium: Etching, first state of two
- Dimensions: Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 5/8 in. (13.7 × 9.2 cm)
Image: 5 1/2 × 3 5/8 in. (14 × 9.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
- Object Number: 57.581.34
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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