1979.227: The Death of Actaeon

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

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. 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

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