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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1947.34
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian (Pietrarossa 1682 - 1754 Venice)
Title
Sleeping Christ Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229121

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.2 x 68.9 cm (20 3/16 x 27 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Anna Lloyd Ely
Accession Year
1947
Object Number
1947.34
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. 163 [as by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta]
  • 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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