1954.84: The Well of Bethesda

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

Permissions

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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

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