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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.227
People
Giovan Angelo Borroni, Italian (Cremona, Italy 1684 - 1772 Milan, Italy)
Title
The Death of Actaeon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295583

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on dark brown prepared antique laid paper
Dimensions
31 x 50 cm (12 3/16 x 19 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.227

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.227
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 11a, pp. 22-23, repr. p. 84
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 62, n.p., and pp. 13 and 63, repr. (color)

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

Verification Level

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