G2936: Youth and Girl Each Offering the Other a Fruit

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G2936

People

Anonymous Italy (Florence), 15th c., Italian, Florentine (active 1465 - 1480)
Anonymous Italy (Florence) 1499, Italian (15th century)

Title

Youth and Girl Each Offering the Other a Fruit

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: so-called Otto prints

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

c. 1470

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/277015

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving with drawn additions in brown ink

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: upper, center, brown ink, handwritten, Italian: inscribed at upper center: o' amore te[?nga] q[uest]a piglia q[uest]a
• coat of arms: central roundel, brown ink: In central roundel, in brown ink, the Medici coat-of-arms (6 balls ['palle'] in circular orientation, the top one inscribed with 3 fleur-de-lys) accompanied by parallel hatching to suggest a convex design.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Ernst Peter Otto, Leipzig, purchased at public sale, 1783, bequeathed to heirs, 1799.
Heirs of Ernst Peter Otto, inherited, 1799, sold through the Leipzig dealer Weigel, 1851-52.
Baron Phillipe de Stosch, Florence, purchased, 1757, bequeathed to Heinrich Wilhelm Muzel, 1757.
Heinrich Wilhelm Muzel (called Stosch Walton), inherited from Baron Philippe de Stosch, 1757, sold at public sale, 1783.
Francis Calley Gray, Collector, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, bequest from uncle, 1856, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

unique impression

Standard Reference Number

B. XIII 143.2, H. AIV 16

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray

Object Number

G2936

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Marjorie B. Cohn and Harvard University Art Museums/ Harvard University Press, Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America (Cambridge, MA, 1986), p. 209, fig. 12
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 317, p. 272, repr.
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 61, repr.

Exhibition History

• Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986

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