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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1989.1
People
Attributed to Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo), Italian (Pontormo, Italy 1494 - 1557 Florence, Italy)
Title
Bust of the Virgin
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Head of the Madonna
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/222189

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Isabelle and Alfred Bader in honor of Sydney J. Freedberg
Accession Year
1989
Object Number
1989.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Janet Cox-Rearick and Sydney J. Freedberg, "A Pontormo (Partly) Recovered", The Burlington Magazine (September 1983), Vol. 125, No. 966, pp. 521-527, 557-558, pp. 521-527, 557-558, repr. as fig. 1
  • John Shearman, The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England, 1983), p. 202
  • 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)
  • Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo, Electa (Milan, 1994), pp. 226-227, repr. as 73.3

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