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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.203
People
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Italian (c. 1285 - 1348/49)
Title
Saint Agnes
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1330
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
36.99 x 25.08 cm (14 9/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: veso, white chalk: Fogg
  • inscription: right side of frame, white chalk: C

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Stasi, Siena], sold; to Charles Fairfax Murray, Florence, Italy, c. 1880, by descent; to John E. Murray, his son, Florence, Italy, sold; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, MA, 1911, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.203
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "The Fogg Art Museum", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, October 25, 1911), Vol. 24, No. 4, p. 54
  • William N. Bates, "Archaeological News: Notes on Recent Excavations and Discoveries; Other News", American Journal of Archaeology (July - September 1913), Vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 429-469, p. 467
  • Edward Waldo Forbes and Laura Howland Dudley, "The Fogg Museum of Harvard University: Primitive Italian Pictures Recently Acquired by the Fogg Museum", Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, August 1913), Vol. 11, No. 64, p. 35
  • George Harold Edgell, "Un' opera inedita di Ambrogio Lorenzetti", L'arte (May - June 1913), Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 206-207, pp. 206-207, repr. p. 207 as fig. 1
  • William N. Bates, "Archaeological News: Notes on Recent Excavations and Discoveries; Other News", American Journal of Archaeology (January - March 1914), Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 85-127, p. 124
  • George Harold Edgell, "The Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge", Art and Archaeology (July - December 1915), Vol. II, pp. 11-22, p. 13
  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), p. 103, no. 17, repr.
  • Raimond Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, M. Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, 1923-1938), vol. II, p. 395
  • Louis Gielly, Les Primitifs Siennois, Albin Michel (Paris, 1926), p. 117
  • Philip Hendy, "Two Sienese Paintings at Fenway Court", The Burlington Magazine (September 1929), Vol. 55, No. 318, pp. 108-111, 114, pp. 109-110, repr. as plate II A
  • George Harold Edgell, A History of Sienese Painting, The Dial Press (New York, 1932), p. 134, repr. as fig. 153
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1932), p. 290
  • Giulia Sinibaldi, I Lorenzetti, Istituto Comunale d'Arte e di Storia (Siena, 1933), pp. 185-185, repr. as plate XXXVIII
  • Lionello Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, E. Weyhe Gallery (New York, NY, 1933), Vol. 1: Romanesque and Gothic, plate 85, repr.
  • Bernard Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento: Catalogo dei Principali Artisti e delle Loro Opere con un Indice dei Luoghi, Ulrico Hoepli (Milan, 1936), p. 249
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places: Central and North Italian Schools, Phaidon (London, 1968), Vol. I, p. 216
  • Edward Waldo Forbes, Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 137, repr. as fig. 27; X-ray repr. p. 139 as fig. 29
  • 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. 109
  • Everett Fahy, Italian Paintings at Fenway Court and Elsewhere, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1978), pp. 31, 36, repr. p. 36 as no. 10
  • 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)

Exhibition History

  • Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitive Paintings, Fogg Art Museum, 02/26/1915 - 03/18/1915
  • Edward Waldo Forbes: Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum, 01/16/1971 - 02/22/1971
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

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