Updated 22 May 2025
Currently not on display
The Fall of the Giants (after Guido Reni)
Date | 1647 |
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Materials and Techniques | Ciaroscuro Woodcut |
Size(cm) | 43.5 x 61.0 (image); 47.0 x 64.5 (paper) |
Standard ref. | Bartsch XII, 114-16, 12 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.2006-0007 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 2007.
Exhibition History
- 2021
- National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_34 | T2_37
Bibliography
- 1837
- Zanetti, Alessandro. Le premier siècle de la calcographie ou catalogue raisonné des estampes du cabinet de feu M. le Comte Léopold Cicognara, avec une appendice sur les nielles du même cabinet. Venice, 1837, pp. 60-61, nos. 70-72.
- 1841
- Malvasia, Carlo Cesare. Felsina Pittrice. Vite de' pittori bolognesi. Con aggiunti e note inedite del medesimo autore di Giampietro Zanotti e di altri scrittori viventi. Bologna, 1841 (1st. ed. 1678), vol. 1, pp. 94-95, vol. 2, pp. 42, 64.
- 1930
- Servolini, Luigi. La xilografia a chiaroscuro italiana: nei secoli XVI, XVII e XVIII. Lecco, 1930, pp. 121-122.
- 1965
- Clairs-obscurs: gravures sur bois imprimées en couleurs de 1500 a 1800 provenant de collections hollandaises (exh. cat.). Institut Néerlandais, Paris, 25 October - 5 December 1965; Musée Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 17 December 1965 - 6 February 1966. Paris, Les Presses Artistiques, [1965], no. 114
- 1977
- Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. An Introduction to the Woodcut of the Seventeenth Century. New York, Abaris Books, 1977, p. 166.
- 1984
- Pepper, D. Stephen. Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Oxford, 1984, p. 275, no. 163
- 1988
- McBurney, Henrietta; Turner, Nicholas. Drawings by Guido Reni for Woodcuts by Bartolomeo Coriolano. Print Quarterly. vol. 5, no. 3, 1988, pp. 232-238.
- 2001
- Chiaroscuro: italienische Farbholzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock (exh. cat.). Graf, Dieter; Mildenberger, Hermann, eds. Casa di Goethe, Rome, 25 April - 23 July 2001; Kunstsammlngen zu Weimar, 19 August - 21 October 2001; Haus der Kunst, München, 17 Octber 2002 - 12 January 2003. Berlin, G + H, 2001, cat. no. 60.
- 2003
- Italienische Holzschnitte der Renaissance und des Barock (exh. cat.). Matile, Michael, ed. Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, 3 - 23 December 2003 and 5 January - 13 February 2004. Basel, Schwabe, 2003, no. 85
- 2003
- Von Cranach bis Baselitz: Meisterwerke des Clairobscur-Holtzschnitts (exh. cat.). Kemmer, Claus, et al, ed. Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 2003, p. 43.
- 2005
- Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Frits Lugt Collection in Paris (exh. cat.). 8 October - 11 December 2005. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Museum, Tokyo, 2005, cat. no. 76-b, pp.171-172.
- 2008
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 41 (Apr. 2006-Mar. 2007), 2008, List of New Acquisitions. p. 46.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 78, 179, cat. no. Y2_34 | T2_37, col. repr.