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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.10
People
Unidentified Artist
After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)
Title
Eleanora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, called "La Bella" (after the painting in the Galeria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence)
Other Titles
Former Title: Bella Donna
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
19th century?
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227810

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.1 x 46.1 cm (24 1/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
frame: 86.6 x 72.1 x 8 cm (34 1/8 x 28 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on back of frame, printed: Giovanni Bisoni / Doratore / Borgo Ognissanti / N. 3436 / Firenze
  • inscription: on back of frame, handwritten in black: Bequeathed by E. R. & [C. L. P.?] to / Sarah Russell Ames / copy of Titian's Bella Donna
  • label: on back of frame, handwritten in black: Mrs. J. B. Ames / 11 Frisbie Place / Cambridge
  • inscription: on back of frame, in graphite: 2676
  • inscription: on back of canvas, in red paint: H241 / Copy after Titian

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sarah Russell Ames
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.10
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 201 [as by Titian]
  • 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)

Verification Level

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