1926.16: Profile of a Girl

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.16

People

Desideri, Italian (19th-20th centuries)
Previously attributed to imitator of Pisanello (Antonio Pisano), Italian (Pisa, Italy c. 1395 - c. 1455 Rome ?, Italy)
Previously attributed as in the style of Pisanello (Antonio Pisano), Italian (Pisa, Italy c. 1395 - c. 1455 Rome ?, Italy)

Title

Profile of a Girl

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1906

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231667

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

26.99 x 16.19 cm (10 5/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
framed: 13.13 x 9.38 x 1.38 cm (5 3/16 x 3 11/16 x 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Desideri, 1906, gift; to Edward Waldo Forbes, Belmont, Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.16

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Catalogue of a Collection of Counterfeits, Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, England, 1924), no. 122, p. 66
• 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. 124, not repr.

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of a Collection of Counterfeits Imitations and Copies of Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 01/01/1924 - 12/31/1924

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