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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.222
People
Workshop of Jacopo Bassano the Elder, Italian (Bassano del Grappa, Italy 1510 - 1592 Bassano del Grappa, Italy)
Title
Moses Leading the Israelites to the Promised Land (?)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Assumption of the Virgin (?)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294324

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and white gouache on blue-brown antique laid paper, laid down to off-white antique laid paper mount
Dimensions
irregular: 23.8 x 38.6 cm (9 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: Bassan
  • inscription: verso: B.B. no. 51 (according to Christie's catalogue)
  • inscription: mount, l.r., brown ink: BB [number cut off]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory B.B. no. 51 on verso and BB on mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Christie’s, London, July 5, 1994, lot 9, repr.] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998

The drawing may have been part of the large group of Sagredo drawings sold in Lyon c. 1919.

Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1994-98.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.222
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, July 7, 1998), no. 9, repr. as "The Assumption of the Virgin (?)" by Bassano

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