John Baptist Jackson Part 10

13.

_Descent from the Cross_, after Rembrandt [Le Bl. 10, N. 3]

Dimensions:

14 11 inches (arched print).

Blocks, 4:

Yellow, gray, light brown, dark violet-brown.

Inscription, bottom left:

"_Rembrandt pinxit, alt. p. 1. lat. unc x.

Extat Venetiis in domo +J: Smith+._"

Bottom right:

"_J: B: Jackson figuras juxta Archetypum Sculp. & excudit. 1738._"

Bottom:

"Acceperunt ergo Corpus JESU, & ligaverunt illud linteis / c.u.m Aromatibus, sicut mos est Judaeis sepelire. _S. Joan. Cap. +xix+ Ver. xi._"/

Lower, with coat of arms:

"_Perill.u.s.tri ac Praeclaro Viro D. Josepho Smith / Insigne hoc Opus affabre in Ligno coelavit, & in sui / obseqii & grati Animi monu-mentum humiliter devovet / J: B: Jackson_"

Smithsonian Inst.i.tution (U.S. National Museum)

MFA, Fogg, MMA, NYPL, Chapel Hill, Philadelphia BM, Paris, Berlin-Dahlem, Vienna, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Prague

14.

_Christ and the Woman of Samaria_

Dimensions:

14 20? inches.

Blocks, 3:

Buff, greenish yellow, black.

After a Bolognese master. Weigel described this as a "beautiful"

chiaroscuro by Jackson.

MFA

15.

_Romulus and Remus, Wolf and Sea G.o.d_

Dimensions:

2 7 inches.

Blocks, 2:

Green, black.

Attributed to Jackson. Probably an ill.u.s.tration for a book.

BM

16.

_The Death of St. Peter Martyr_, after t.i.tian [Le Bl. 16, N. 10]

Dimensions:

21 13 inches.

Blocks, 4:

Buff, pale greenish gray, brown, dark gray.

Inscription, lower left (inside border):

"_J: B: Jackson Sculp: & Excudit Venetiis_ 1739."

Outside bottom frame, center:

"+t.i.tia.n.u.s Vecellius Cad. Invenit & Pinxit.+"

The painting was destroyed by fire in 1867.

17.

_The Presentation in the Temple_ (The Circ.u.mcision), after Veronese [Le Bl. 4, N. 15]

Dimensions:

21? 15? inches.