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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G464
People
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
print
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
  • 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
  • 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
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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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