Study of a Young Man | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1943.1049
People: Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Jacopo Sansovino, Italian (1486 - 1570)
Previously attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martino, called Francesco di Giorgio, Italian (1439 - 1501)
Previously attributed to Giacomo di Bartolomeo di Marco Cozzarelli, Italian (Siena, Italy 1453 - 1515 Siena, Italy)
Previously attributed to Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)
Title: Study of a Young Man
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Saint John / Apollo
Classification: Sculpture
Work Type: sculpture, figure
Date: 1500-1550
Culture: Italian?
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/229863

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Walnut? overlaid with gesso

Dimensions

62 x 32.5 x 15 cm (24 7/16 x 12 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
with base: 63 x 32.5 x 15 cm (24 13/16 x 12 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

label: bottom of base, black ink, paper, handwritten: 86

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Cecconi, Italy. Joachim Ferroni, Rome, sold [through his sale, April 1909, lot 350, as "Apollon," as by Pollaiuolo] [through Richard Norton]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.1049

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

Vente Après Décès des Collections de Mr. Joachim Ferroni, auct. cat., Jandolo et Tavazzi (Rome, Italy, April 14 - 22 1909), no. 350, repr. pl. XLVI
Arthur Kingsley Porter, "Giacomo Cozzarelli and the Winthrop Statuette", Art In America (April 1921), vol. IX no. III, pp. 95 - 101, pp. 95-101, repr.
Brandt Aymar, The Young Male Figure, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1970), p. 81, repr.

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