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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1974.173
People
Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian (1699 - 1775)
Previously attributed to Faustino Bocchi, Italian (Brescia, Italy 1659 - 1742 Brescia, Italy)
Title
The Ball of Pulcinella
Other Titles
Former Title: Bambocciata
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
before 1721
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296037

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Counterproof
Dimensions
40.8 x 35.5 cm (16 1/16 x 14 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of David E. Rust
Accession Year
1974
Object Number
1974.173
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lisa Hall, "Counterproofs: An Investigation into the History, Materials, Techniques, and Uses of Red Chalk Counterproofs with an Examination of Other Methods of Copying" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, August 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-62 passim
  • Giuseppe Buscaglia, Rosalina Colu, and Mary Newcome Schleier, Giovanni Agostino Ratti: pittore, incisore, ceramista, ed. Giuseppe Buscaglia, Fondazione Agostino de Mari (Savona, 2004), p. 172, cat. no. D11, illus. p. 171
  • Giada Damen, "Raccolte di disegni in Romagna: spunti per qualche riflessione." Collezionismo d'arte in Romagna in età moderna, ed. Barbara Ghelfi and Oriana Orsi (Bologna, 2018), p. 257, illus. p. 258, fig. 4

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/14/2018 - 03/14/2019

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