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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1938.131
People
Giovanni di Paolo, Italian (c. 1398/99 - 1482)
Title
Saint Augustine
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1465-1470
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230777

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions
59.69 x 35.56 cm (23 1/2 x 14 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William Graham, to; his daughter Frances Horner, Mells Park, Frome, Somerset (possibly sale, Christie's, London, July 11, 1919, lot 4). Arthur and Alice Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
1938.131
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Helen Comstock, "Paintings by Giovanni di Paolo in America", The International Studio, vol. 87, pp. 47-55, p. 54
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places: Central and North Italian Schools, Phaidon (London, 1968)
  • 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. 89 [as Anonymous Bishop Saint]
  • John Pope-Hennessy, The Robert Lehman Collection: Italian Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey, 1987), p. 136
  • John Pope-Hennessy, "Giovanni di Paolo", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Fall 1988), XLVI, no. 2, p. 33
  • 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)
  • Elizabeth Goldman, Believers: Spiritual Leaders of the World, Oxford University Press (NY) (New York/Oxford, 1995), p. 54, repr.
  • Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Graham: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector", The Sixty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society, The Walpole Society (Leeds, 2000), pp. 145-343, p. 318, fig. 180 , repr.

Exhibition History

  • Paintings Lent by the Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum, Wellesley College Museum of Art, 03/22/1945 - 04/10/1945
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Wellesley College, 1952, Wellesley College Museum of Art, 05/20/1952 - 06/01/1952

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