Daniele Crespi
The Mocking of Christcirca 1624-1625

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Artist or Maker: Daniele Crespi
Italy, Busto Arsizio, circa 1595-1630
Title: The Mocking of Christ
Date Made: circa 1624-1625
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 42 1/2 × 35 13/16 in. (107.95 × 90.96 cm) Frame: 50 × 43 × 2 1/2 in. (127 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2013.82
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Curatorial Notes: Rather than representing the actual scourging, the artist illustrated Christ on his way to the flagellation. Depicting that anticipatory moment with such intense emotion is typical of Daniele Crespi, a Milanese artist famous for his somber and powerful religious images. Slightly younger than Caravaggio, Crespi shares with him common Milanese roots, but in this work demonstrates also an awareness of Caravaggio's use of chiaroscuro.
Provenance: Crespi collection, Milan, by at least 1900 (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 June 1914, lot 69, unsold) by descent to; Silvio Crespi, Milan. (Sale, Rome, Christie's, 15 Oct. 1970, lot 69). Private collection. [Giovanni Sarti, London and Paris, sold 2013 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Daniele Crespi
Italy, Busto Arsizio, circa 1595-1630
Title: The Mocking of Christ
Date Made: circa 1624-1625
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 42 1/2 × 35 13/16 in. (107.95 × 90.96 cm) Frame: 50 × 43 × 2 1/2 in. (127 × 109.22 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2013.82
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Curatorial Notes: Rather than representing the actual scourging, the artist illustrated Christ on his way to the flagellation. Depicting that anticipatory moment with such intense emotion is typical of Daniele Crespi, a Milanese artist famous for his somber and powerful religious images. Slightly younger than Caravaggio, Crespi shares with him common Milanese roots, but in this work demonstrates also an awareness of Caravaggio's use of chiaroscuro.
Provenance: Crespi collection, Milan, by at least 1900 (sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4 June 1914, lot 69, unsold) by descent to; Silvio Crespi, Milan. (Sale, Rome, Christie's, 15 Oct. 1970, lot 69). Private collection. [Giovanni Sarti, London and Paris, sold 2013 to]; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.