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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.104
People
Paris Bordone, Italian (Treviso, Italy 1500 - 1571 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Adoration of the Magi
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1550
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
86.3 x 100.8 cm (34 x 39 11/16 in.)
framed: 101.6 x 116.5 x 8.5 cm (40 x 45 7/8 x 3 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Vienna. Sold [via Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1933, 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
1943.104
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lili Frölich-Bum, "A Rediscovered Work by Paris Bordone", The Burlington Magazine (June 1934), vol. 64, No.375, pp. 282-283+287, p. 283, repr. as A, pp.282, 287
  • Giordana M. Canova, Paris Bordon, Edizioni Alfieri (Venice, 1964), pp. 75-76; repr. as fig. 150
  • 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. 32
  • Sydney J. Freedberg, "Lorenzo Lotto to Nicolas Poussin", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 389-397, p. 391, repr. p. 390 as fig. 3
  • 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. 178, p. 157, 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)

Exhibition History

  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/2010 - 10/09/2010
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 09/06/2011 - 10/01/2011

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