G464: Caricature of the Laocoön
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G464
- People
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Nicolò Boldrini, Italian (1510 - after 1566)
After Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)
- Title
- Caricature of the Laocoön
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1540-1545
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/276248
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened and damaged
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- sheet: 27.1 × 35.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: [illegible text] / [illegible text] / [illegible text]
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: B
- inscription: verso, various graphite inscriptions: CMT / Titian inu./N. Boldrini fec./Basiggio Nr. 7 / B
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collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with accession number written in graphite:
GRAY COLLECTION, / 464 / HARVARD COLLEGE. [within an oval borderline (Lugt 4836)]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Rosand & Muraro 40
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G464
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Alan Chong and Lorenzo Principi, ed., The Sculpture of Giovan Angelo Montorsoli and His Circle: Myth and Faith in Renaissance Florence, exh. cat., Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, NY, 2018), cat. no. 25, repr., p. 53
Exhibition History
- Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs (Teaching Gallery) S421, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/14/2010 - 09/04/2010
- The Sculpture of Giovan Angelo Montorsoli and His Circle: Myth and Faith in Renaissance Florence, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, 10/13/2018 - 01/21/2019
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