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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

Object Information
  • 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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