Incorrect Username, Email, or Password
This object does not yet have a description.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
G3017
People
Antonio Perfetti, Italian (1792 - 1872)
After Raphael, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1483 - 1520 Rome, Italy)
Title
Madonna of the Chair
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Madonna della Sedia
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
19th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279011

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 46.8 x 40.4 cm (18 7/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Perfetti
  • inscription: inscription by M. Steinla to the effect that this impression was selected and sent by Perfetti to King John of Saxony but that he had already received a similar impression from his sister the Dowager Duchess of Tuscany

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
King John of Saxony.
Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/iv
Standard Reference Number
And. 5, Le Bl. 4, Ap. 5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G3017
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

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. 130, fig. 7

Exhibition History

  • Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray Collection of Engravings, Fogg Art Museum, 09/02/1986 - 11/02/1986
  • Precision and Prestige: The Arts of Engraving, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/11/2001 - 12/02/2001

Verification Level

This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu