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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.104
People
Henry Edwards Scott Jr., American (Cambridge, MA 1900 - 1990 Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard)
After Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi), Italian (Florence, Italy 1444/45 - 1510 Florence, Italy)
Title
The Archangel Gabriel, after Botticelli
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1923
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Fresco transferred to canvas
Technique
Fresco painting
Dimensions
81.6 x 64.8 cm (32 1/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
framed: 94.6 x 76.2 x 5.7 cm (37 1/4 x 30 x 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.104
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This work was painted by Henry Scott on a garden wall at the Villa Curonia, Florence in April 1923. It was transferred to canvas by Daniel Thompson in May 1923 and slightly repainted in watercolor at time of transfer. It is a copy of a detail from "The Annunciation" in the Uffizi Galleries, Florence.

Publication History

  • Catalogue of a Collection of Counterfeits, Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, England, 1924), pps. 64 and 65, no. 116
  • 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), p. 99

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of a Collection of Counterfeits Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1924 - 12/31/1924
  • Technique exhibit, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932

Verification Level

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