Joseph sold to Potiphar (After Pontormo)
oil on canvas
16 x 13 cm
size in frame: 31 x 26.6 x 2 cm
Frame hand-made by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Jacopo Carucci (or Carrucci, usually known as Jacopo Pontormo). The original painting, now in the National Gallery, was one of a series of panels that were made to decorate the bedchamber of the Florentine banker Pierfrancesco Borgherini on the occasion of his marriage in 1515. The paintings, commissioned by Pierfrancesco’s father, tell the Old Testament story of Joseph. Joseph, his father’s favourite son, was given a coat of many colours by him. His jealous half-brothers sold Joseph to a caravan of Ishmaelite merchants taking perfumes and spices to Egypt. The brothers smeared goat’s blood on Joseph’s coat and told their father that Joseph was dead. This scene shows Joseph (the central young boy in yellow) standing before his new master, Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard, to whom he has just been sold. The Ishmaelites are grappling for their payment on the left. One of them bends over, his back to the viewer and his head between his legs, to pick up a coin from the ground. Five other panels from the series are in the National Gallery’s collection.
In my work, I am heavily inspired by the work of Pontormo. Every time I begin a new work I go back and study his paintings. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
oil on canvas
16 x 13 cm
size in frame: 31 x 26.6 x 2 cm
Frame hand-made by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Jacopo Carucci (or Carrucci, usually known as Jacopo Pontormo). The original painting, now in the National Gallery, was one of a series of panels that were made to decorate the bedchamber of the Florentine banker Pierfrancesco Borgherini on the occasion of his marriage in 1515. The paintings, commissioned by Pierfrancesco’s father, tell the Old Testament story of Joseph. Joseph, his father’s favourite son, was given a coat of many colours by him. His jealous half-brothers sold Joseph to a caravan of Ishmaelite merchants taking perfumes and spices to Egypt. The brothers smeared goat’s blood on Joseph’s coat and told their father that Joseph was dead. This scene shows Joseph (the central young boy in yellow) standing before his new master, Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard, to whom he has just been sold. The Ishmaelites are grappling for their payment on the left. One of them bends over, his back to the viewer and his head between his legs, to pick up a coin from the ground. Five other panels from the series are in the National Gallery’s collection.
In my work, I am heavily inspired by the work of Pontormo. Every time I begin a new work I go back and study his paintings. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
oil on canvas
16 x 13 cm
size in frame: 31 x 26.6 x 2 cm
Frame hand-made by me in my Norfolk studio
This is an oil sketch copy of a work by Italian painter Jacopo Carucci (or Carrucci, usually known as Jacopo Pontormo). The original painting, now in the National Gallery, was one of a series of panels that were made to decorate the bedchamber of the Florentine banker Pierfrancesco Borgherini on the occasion of his marriage in 1515. The paintings, commissioned by Pierfrancesco’s father, tell the Old Testament story of Joseph. Joseph, his father’s favourite son, was given a coat of many colours by him. His jealous half-brothers sold Joseph to a caravan of Ishmaelite merchants taking perfumes and spices to Egypt. The brothers smeared goat’s blood on Joseph’s coat and told their father that Joseph was dead. This scene shows Joseph (the central young boy in yellow) standing before his new master, Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh’s guard, to whom he has just been sold. The Ishmaelites are grappling for their payment on the left. One of them bends over, his back to the viewer and his head between his legs, to pick up a coin from the ground. Five other panels from the series are in the National Gallery’s collection.
In my work, I am heavily inspired by the work of Pontormo. Every time I begin a new work I go back and study his paintings. This oil sketch was made when I was in the research phase of my current project Miniature.
