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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.9.2
People
Maso Finiguerra, Italian (Florence, Italy 1426 - 1464 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title
Study of a Seated Young Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294234

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on tan antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink, laid down to antique laid paper on twentieth century mount
Dimensions
actual: 9.4 x 5.5 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: l.l., brown ink: Lugt 1433
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/12/2002
  • inscription: l.r. of mount, graphite: A-27648-13-
  • inscription: bottom center edge, graphite: [not decipherable as inscription is cut off]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giorgio Vasari, Florence. See Ragghianti Collobi, Licia, "Il Libro de'Disegni del Vasari,"p. 80
William Roscoe, Liverpool, England, sale, Liverpool, with Winstanley [see Lugt], 1816. See sale catalogue of collection, 1816
Sir John Charles Robinson, London (L. 1433).
Pauline Fennö, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Pauline Fennö
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.9.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of the very select and valuable library of William Roscoe, esq. which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Winstanley, at his rooms in Marble street, Liverpool, on Monday the 19th of August, and thirteen following days..., auct. cat., J. M. M'Creery (London, England, 1816), no. 26
  • Otto Kurz, "Giorgio Vasari's 'Libro de' Disegni'", Old Master Drawings (1937 - 1938), vol. XII, pp. 1-15, p. 13
  • Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, under no. 620, p. 618, repr. p. 615, fig. 959 as Florentine ca. 1460-70
  • Licia Ragghianti Collobi, Il Libro de' Disegni del Vasari, Valecchi (Florence, Italy, 1974), vol 1, p. 80, repr. vol. 2, fig. 216
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 9, p. 18
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 24, repr. fig. 2 (2)
  • Lorenza Melli, Maso Finiguerra: I disegni, Edifir-Edizioni (Florence, Italy, 1995), p. 53 and no. 157

Exhibition History

  • An Evening of Italian Art and Music, Boston University, Boston, 03/07/1955 - 03/14/1955
  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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