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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.147
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Jacopo Palma (called il Vecchio), Italian (c. 1479 - 1528)
Title
Head of a Woman
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1525
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228729

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.147
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edward Waldo Forbes, Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1971), p. 38, repr. in b/w p. 39
  • 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. 155 [as by Jacopo Palma]
  • David Kolch, "Reconstruction System for Panel Painting Supports: A Review and Evaluation of Treatments in the Fogg Museum Laboratory, 1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • 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

  • Edward Waldo Forbes: Yankee Visionary, Fogg Art Museum, 01/16/1971 - 02/22/1971

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