1932.145: Cleopatra (after Baccio Bandinelli)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.145

People

Agnolo Bronzino, Italian (Monticelli, Italy 1503 - 1572 Florence, Italy)

Title

Cleopatra (after Baccio Bandinelli)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298532

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

38.5 × 21.4 cm (15 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Angel encircled with six-pointed star above head--vaguely like Briquet no. 639
• inscription: u.r., brown ink: Angiolo Bronzino

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

George William Reid, London. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.145

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Mario Tinti, "Il Bronzino pittore 'Platonico' - II", Dedalo (Milan and Rome, October 1920), vol. 2, pp. 322-331, repr. p. 326
• Arthur McComb, Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1928), p. 147; pl. 45, n.p.
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 593D, p. 62, as Agnolo Bronzino
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 71, pp. 56-57; vol. 2, repr. fig. 61
• Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 23, n.p.
• Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), cat. no. 94, p. 120; repr. no. 94, n.p.
• William G. Constable, The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1946), p. 4; no. 8, p. 8; repr. no 8, n.p.
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 7
• Craig Hugh Smyth, "Bronzino Studies" (1955), University Microfilms, no. 12, pp. 81-82; fig. 150, n.p.
• Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1962), no. 5, p. 2
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 204, n.p.; repr. color, n.p.
• Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 19; pl. 76, p. 108
• Drawing Before 1800, exh. cat., Lawrence University (Appleton, WI, 1968), cat. no. 4, repr. as frontispiece
• Richard F. Howard, Italian Drawings, Modern Paintings and Treasures from the Vatican: 19th Birmingham Festival of Arts, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1969), cat. no. 4, n.p.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 20, pp. 52-3, repr.
• Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), cat. no. 9, p. 34, and pp. 8, 11, 26 and 122, repr. fig. 9 as Bronzino
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 35, n.p., and p. 36, repr. color as Bronzino (?)
• Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., University of Washington Press and Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 11, pp. 78-79, repr.
• Uwe Westfehling, Zeichnen in der Renaissance: Entwicklung, Techniken, Formen, Themen, DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, Germany, 1993), pp. 175-176; repr. no. 46, p. 175; no. 46, p. 337
• Elizabeth Pilliod, Review of "From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes", Master Drawings (New York, NY, WInter 1994), vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 387-392, pp. 391-392 as "Not by Bronzino...could it possibly be Parmesan?"
• Larry J. Feinberg, [Letter to Editor], Master Drawings (New York, NY, Summer 1995), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 189-190, p. 190 [incorrectly states cat. entry for "From Studio to Studiolo" is no. 10]
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30 under "Black chalk"
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Drawing Before 1800, Lawrence University, Appleton, 01/07/1968 - 02/21/1968
• Italian Old Master Drawings, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 03/14/1969 - 04/01/1969
• The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979
• From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991 - 12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992 - 03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992 - 05/24/1992
• Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995

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