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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.118
People
Pietro Longhi, Italian (Venice, Italy 1700/02 - 1785 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Milliner
Other Titles
Former Title: The Modiste
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1765-1770
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230013

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
59.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Martin Birnbaum (January 1933)]; to Grenville L. WInthrop 91933-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.118
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. 108
  • 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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