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The Entombment (a); Holy Women at the Sepulchre [?] (b)
Artist: Pietro Antonio de Pietri (Attributed to) (Italian, 1663-1716)
Medium: pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper
Dimensions: 12 in. x 8 7/16 in. (30.5 cm. x 21.5 cm.)
Credit Line: Bequest of the Honorable James Bowdoin III
Accession Number: 1811.28.a.&.b
- "No. 35 Pietro da Petri"
Type: inscription
Location: verso of old mount (lost)
Materials: pen and ink - unidentified
Type: watermark
Location:
Materials:
- James Bowdoin III( Collector, Boston) - 1811.
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art( Museum, Brunswick, Maine) 1811- . Bequest
- Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College
- Bowdoin College Museum of Art. ( 5/17/1985 - 7/7/1985)
- Clark Art Institute. ( 9/14/1985 - 10/27/1985)
- University of Kansas. ( 1/19/1986 - 3/2/1986)
- Art Gallery of Ontario. ( 5/17/1986 - 6/29/1986)
The recto has more claim to be de' Pietri than the verso. The latter probably depicts the morning of the Resurrection, when the three Marys come to Christ's tomb and find it empty, guarded by an angel (sometimes depicted as a young man) who announces the Resurrection.
Commentary credited to David P. Becker (or not otherwise captioned) appeared in his catalogue Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College (Brunswick: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1985).