1979.59.B: Fountain of the Dragons, Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.59.B

People

Israël Silvestre, French (Nancy 1621 - 1691 Paris)

Title

Fountain of the Dragons, Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295298

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, graphite, brown wash, and watercolor on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, adhered to a decorated mount

Dimensions

20.3 x 33.3 cm (8 x 13 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, center, graphite: Veue des Jardins dela ["ela" in superscript] vigon d' [illegible] Tivla
• watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon and 13th Earl of Lindsey, London and Gilmilnscroft House, East Ayrshire; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 July, 1935, part of lot 5; Colnaghi, London; Frances L. Hofer, Boston, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, inv. no. 1979.59.B

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.59.B

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gustavus Mayer, Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (London, 1935), cat. no. 27, n.p.
• Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat., Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1940), cat. no. 97b
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 24b, pp. 34-35, 101
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth-Century, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, 1989), cat. no. 44, pp. 92-93
• Betsy G. Fryberger, The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art, exh. cat., Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts / University of California Press (Berkeley, 2003), cat. no. 54b
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 34b, repr.; detail repr. p. 111, p. 17

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 10/01/1935 - 11/01/1935
• Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940
• From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawings from the 17th Century, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 12/13/1989 - 01/28/1990; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/24/1990 - 04/08/1990; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 05/06/1990 - 06/17/1990
• The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, 06/11/2003 - 09/07/2003; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 10/19/2003 - 01/11/2004; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 03/13/2004 - 05/23/2004
• Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

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