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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.36
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
After Vittore Carpaccio, Italian (Venice, Italy 1460 - 1526 Venice, Italy)
Title
Study of the Head of the Sleeping Saint Ursula, after Carpaccio, in the Academy of Venice
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1877-1878
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231694

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3620, University Study Gallery
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36.8 x 41 cm (14 1/2 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • stamp: back of stretcher, ink, stamped: Pietro Biasutti / Salizzada S. Luca, 4153 / Venezia

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
1926.33.36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Copy after detail of "The Legend of Saint Ursula: Saint Ursula's Dream," in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, 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. 11-12, cat. 8
  • 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. 101, not repr.
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), p. 389
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 47, fig. 16
  • 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. 227
  • Paul Tucker, ed., Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice: A Critical Edition, with Other Texts on Carpaccio and Venetian Painting, Edizioni Ca'Foscari and Venice University Press (Venice, 2023), pp. 28-29, repr. as fig. 5

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
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025

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