1979.226: Diana Watching the Hunt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.226

People

Giovan Angelo Borroni, Italian (Cremona, Italy 1684 - 1772 Milan, Italy)

Title

Diana Watching the Hunt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th-18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295535

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on dark brown prepared antique laid paper

Dimensions

actual: 30.8 x 50.3 cm (12 1/8 x 19 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.226

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.226

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 11b, pp. 23-24, repr. p. 85
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), under cat. no. 62, n.p.

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984

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