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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.66
People
Scipione Pulzone, called Il Gaetano, Italian (Gaëta, Italy 1544 - 1598 Rome, Italy)
Title
Portrait of Cardinal Ricci
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1569
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231068

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
66.7 x 51.4 cm (26 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
frame: 76.1 × 91.3 cm (29 15/16 × 35 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, top of frame: CONSIGN. NO. DATE [printed] / [illeg. graphite inscription] / LOT. NO. REMARKS [printed] / 109 x [graphite inscription]
  • label: vreso, top of frame, oval with printed text: J. CHENUE / FRENCh PACRER. / 10, GREAT ST. ANDREW STREET / S [illeg.] URY [illeg.] / LONDON, W. C
  • label: verso, top stetcher bar: fragment of label with red border
  • label: vreso, top strecher bar, printed text: Thos. Agnew & Sons, / [illeg.] ester, Liverpool, / Street. Exchange Art Gallery / Dale Street / London / Street
  • inscription: verso, on stretcher, blue crayon: 3397A
  • label: verso, top of frame, cream label with red border, handwritten text: N.160
  • inscription: vreso, graphite: 6#
  • label: verso, on strecher, blue border, handwritten text: D / 19[illeg.]
  • inscription: verso, bottom of frame, white chalk: 1934.66
  • label: vreso, on bottom stretcher, handwritten text in brown ink: gbst. / Gaetano. / Portrait of Cardinal / Ricci
  • inscription: verso, bottom of frame, white chalk: ULZONE

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.66
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. 171
  • 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), pp. 125, 337, repr. b/w cat. no. 698
  • Alexandra Dern, Scipione Pulzone (ca. 1546-1598), Verlag Und Datenbank Für Geisteswissenschaften (Weimar, Germany, 2003), no. 1, pp. 91-92, repr. as abb. 1; p. 22,
  • Pierre Curie, "Portraits intemporels: les duex Granvelle de Pulzone", Antoine de Granvelle, l'Éminence pourpre: images d'une homme de pouvoir de la Renaissance, Silvana Editoriale (Besançon, 2017), pp. 80-89, pp. 81-82, repr. p. 82 as fig. 1

Verification Level

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