The Agony in the Garden

1616 - 1620. Oil on unlined canvas.
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In the Garden of Gethsemane an angel comforts Christ before his crucifixion, while the three Apostles slumber nearby. Procaccini was the most renowned member of a Bolognese family of artists which had settled in Milan. His work reflects a heightened, dramatic religious sensibility with large figures located close the picture plane, as in this example in which Christ’s troubled face contrasts with the angel’s serenity.

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Inventory number: P008151
Author: Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Title: The Agony in the Garden
Date: 1616 - 1620
Technique: Oil
Support: Unlined canvas
Dimension: Width: 147 cm; Height: 216 cm
Provenance: Adanero collection, second half of the nineteenth century; Collection Viscounts of Roda, 1965; ; Conti Collection, Barcelona, 2008-2012 Collection Francisco Fernandez, Barcelona, 2013; acquired by the State for Prado Museum, 2013.
Entry date: 2013

Bibliography +

Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Pintura italiana del S. XVII en España, Universidad Fundación Valdecilla, Madrid, 1965, pp. 363; lám.116.

Brigstocke, Hugh, Procaccini in America, Hall & Knight, Londres, 2002, pp. 106 y 161.

D'Albo, Odette, I governatori spagnoli a Milano e le arti: Pedro de Toledo, Giulio Cesare Procaccini e le 'Historie Grandi della vitta di Nostro Signore', Nuovi studi, anno XIX, 2014, pp. 154-164 [150,152,155 Lám.XIII fg.244].

D' Albo, Odette, Camillo y Giulio Cesare Procaccini al servicio de los gobernadores españoles de Milán, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXXV, 2017, pp. 66-75.

Brigstocke , H, Three pictures by G.C Procaccini at Conalghiu: The agony in the garden: Christ meeting his mother on the road to Calvary; The Holy Family, Colnaghi studies journal., 1 oct., 2017, pp. 153-163.

Brigstocke, Hugh; D'Albo, Odette, Giulio Cesare Procaccini. Life and work, Allemandi, 2020, pp. 128 nº 85.

Martínez Plaza, Pedro J. y Pérez-Seoane Mazzuchelli, Carmen, La colección Adanero – Castro Serna en Madrid. De la Restauración a la Guerra Civil, LOCVS AMŒNVS, 19, 2021, pp. 177-219.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2865.

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G.C. / P.
Signed. Front, lower right corner

JUNTA DELEGADA DE INCAUTACIÓN / PROTECCION Y SALVAMENTO DEL / TESORO ARTÍSTICO / N.º de Inventario 9658 / Procedencia Roda / N.º Colec. 190
Handwritten label. Stretcher, left side bar