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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1997.204
People
Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the Elder, Italian (Vicenza, Italy 1520 - 1583 Vicenza, Italy)
Title
Landscape with Ruins
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Verona
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293658

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 20.6 x 30 cm (8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: Battisti Pittoni
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: 1727 (or 1722)
  • collector's mark: l.l., brown ink: L. 2951--paraph of Dezallier d'Argenville

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (L. 2951 (as Pierre Crozat), sold [through his sale, P. Remy, Paris, January 18-28, 1770, no. 177]. Unidentified collector. Private collector, New York, sold [through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London and New York]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1994, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor in honor of Lynn and Philip Straus
Accession Year
1997
Object Number
1997.204
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stephen Ongpin, An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1994, no. 5, n.p., repr. color
  • Jacqueline Labbé and Lise Bicart Sée, La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, reconstituée d'après son Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintures, édition de 1762, Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1996), no. 1787, p. 253
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/Princeton University Press (Chicago, IL and Princeton, NJ, 1997), p. 194

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Master Drawings, Colnaghi USA Ltd., New York, 04/26/1994 - 05/27/1994; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 06/29/1994 - 07/08/1994

Verification Level

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