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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.84
People
Luca Giordano, Italian (Naples 1634 - 1705 Naples)
Title
The Well of Bethesda
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1687
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/219687

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
sight: 59.69 x 145.42 cm (23 1/2 x 57 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: No. 29¢4

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.84
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 85
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
  • Luca Giordano 1634-1705, Electa Napoli (Naples, 2001), p. 297
  • Oreste Ferrari, Luca Giordano: nuove ricerche e inediti, Electa Napoli (Naples, Italy, 2003), no. A0175, pp. 75-76, 101; repr. in b/w p. 187

Exhibition History

  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967

Verification Level

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