1926.33.40: Reduced Study of a Portion of the Lower Part of Titian's Picture of "The Assumption of the Virgin," in the Academy of Venice

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.40

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
After Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1519 - 1594 Venice, Italy)

Title

Reduced Study of a Portion of the Lower Part of Titian's Picture of "The Assumption of the Virgin," in the Academy of Venice

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1876

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231574

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

42.2 x 25.1 cm (16 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: back of stretcher, paper: Giuseppe Biasutti / Prezzo la Regia Accademia / N. 1024 Venezia / Deposito Oggetti / per / Pittura e Disegno

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.33.40

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Copy after a detail of a painting in S. Maria dei Frari, Venice.

Publication History

• Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), p. 13, cat. 11
• 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. 131, not repr.
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 247, cat. 226

Exhibition History

• Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878

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