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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.192
People
After Domenico Beccafumi, Italian (Cortine in Valdibiena Montaperti, Italy 1486 - 1551 Siena, Italy)
Previously attributed to Domenico Beccafumi, Italian (Cortine in Valdibiena Montaperti, Italy 1486 - 1551 Siena, Italy)
Previously attributed to Maso da San Friano, Italian (San Friano, Italy c. 1531 - 1571 Florence, Italy)
Title
Head of a Boy; verso: Sketches of Two Female Heads and a Lute
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295682

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk over red chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
20.3 × 13.3 cm (8 × 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Fragment of an anchor in a circle, similar to Briquet 466. According to Albert Jan Elen in "Italian Late-Medieval and Renaissance Drawing-Books," p. 332, the watermark is also similar to Piccard VI IV/31-133 (Italy, Austria, Germany 1483-1566) ["Die Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard im Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart: Findbuch," bearbeitet von Gerhard Piccard (Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1961-)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Walter Schatzki, New York.
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979.192

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.192
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. no. 3, pp. 17-18, and p. 9, repr. recto and verso
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 13 and 32, repr. recto, fig. 16
  • Andrea de Marchi, "Beccafumi e la sua 'maniera': difficoltà del disegno senese", Domenico Beccafumi e il Suo Tempo (Milan, Italy, 1990), pp. 412-425, p. 412 and p. 423 under footnote 14
  • Albert Jan Elen, Italian Late-Medieval and Renaissance Drawing-Books from Giovannino de'Grassi to Palma Giovane: A Codicological Approach, Privately Published (Leiden, 1995), under no. 68, pp. 332-336

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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