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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.134
People
Defendente Ferrari, Italian (active c. 1500 - 1535)
Title
The Adoration of the Christ Child
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Nativity - Adoration of the Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1500
Culture
Italian, Piedmontese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230286

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
69.9 x 47 cm (27 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)

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
1941.134
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Mallé Luigi, Spanzotti Defendente Giovenone, Editrice Impronta (Torino, Italy, 1971), p. 53; repr. as fig. 59
  • 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. 69
  • Sydney J. Freedberg, "Lorenzo Lotto to Nicolas Poussin", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 389-397, p. 392-393, repr. p. 392 as fig. 7
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 174, p. 154, repr.
  • 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. 43, color plate; pp. 107, 326, repr. b/w cat. no. 657
  • Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (Rome, Italy, 1996), vol. 46, under "Ferrari"
  • Silvana Pettenati and Giovanni Romano, Il tesoro della città: Opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama, exh. cat., Umberto Allemandi & C. (Torino, Italy, 1996), under no. 26

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