1926.33.39: Reduced Study of Tintoret's "Madonna of the Faithful," in the Academy of Venice

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.39

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 Tintoret's "Madonna of the Faithful," 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/231912

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

61.9 x 31.1 cm (24 3/8 x 12 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: back of stretcher, paper, ink: 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

1926.33.39

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Copy after a fresco at the Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta on Torcello, 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. 10
• 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. 225
• 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. 113-114, repr. as fig. 38

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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