1941.133: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1941.133

People

Master known as the Pseudo Granacci, Italian (1495 - 1525)
Previously attributed to Piero di Cosimo, Italian (Florence (?), Italy c. 1462 - 1522 Florence(?), Italy)

Title

Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228898

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

54 x 38.4 cm (21 1/4 x 15 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1941

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Mr. Felix M. Warburg's birth

Accession Year

1941

Object Number

1941.133

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places. Florentine School., Phaidon Publishers and New York Graphic Society (Greenwich, CT, 1963), vol. I, p. 108
• 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. 220 [as unknown, Florence, 15th century]
• 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)

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