The Descent From the Cross
Cosimo Rosselli
(Italian (Florentine), 1439–1507)
possibly mid–1480s
Medium/TechniqueOil and tempera on panel
Dimensions50.8 x 35.9 cm (20 x 14 1/8 in.)
Credit LineZoe Oliver Sherman Collection
Accession number22.651
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Provenance1839, published by Giovanni Rosini [see note 1]. About 1862/72, acquired in Florence by Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (b. 1819 – d. 1883), Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire; to his daughter, Isabella Caroline Somers-Cocks, Lady Henry Somerset (b. 1851 – d. 1921), Eastnor Castle [see note 2]; sold by Lady Somerset to Robert Langton Douglas (dealer; b. 1864 - d. 1951), London; 1922, sold by Douglas to Zoe Oliver Sherman (b. 1861 - d. 1945), Boston; 1922, gift of Zoe Oliver Sherman to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1922)
NOTES:
[1] As a work by Gherardo Starnina. Storia della pittura italiana, esposta coi monumenti (Pisa, 1839 [1848 ed.]), vol. 2, pl. opposite p. 110. The painting was first published as a work by Rosselli in 1909. [2] Lady Henry Someret, Eastnor Castle (1889), p. 37, as by Garofalo.
NOTES:
[1] As a work by Gherardo Starnina. Storia della pittura italiana, esposta coi monumenti (Pisa, 1839 [1848 ed.]), vol. 2, pl. opposite p. 110. The painting was first published as a work by Rosselli in 1909. [2] Lady Henry Someret, Eastnor Castle (1889), p. 37, as by Garofalo.
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