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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.19
People
Antonio Tempesta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1555 - 1630 Rome, Italy)
Title
Saint Benedict's Arrival in Rome as a Boy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th-17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/145068

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and black chalk, with incidental black and red chalk around edges, incised, on off-white antique laid paper, with a framing line in brown ink
Dimensions
26.8 x 20.5 cm (10 9/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink, stamp: mark of Sir John St. Aubyn (L. 1534)
  • inscription: verso, graphite, bottom: WUNDER 8871

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir John (1758-1839) St. Aubyn, London (L. 1534). with his mark
William Horatio Crawford, Cork.
F. W. Stevenson, London.
Richard Wunder, Gift to HUAM.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Richard P. Wunder, Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, exh. cat., Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT, 1975), cat. no. 105, pp. 65-66, repr. p. 182
  • The Dr. Richard P. Wunder Collection of Fine Architectural Ornament and Other Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, July 7, 1976), no. 164, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury, 01/05/1975 - 02/26/1975

Verification Level

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