1969.167.H: Study for "El Sueño de la Doncella"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1969.167.H

People

Fernando Zóbel, Spanish (Manila, Philippines 1924 - 1984 Rome, Italy)

Title

Study for "El Sueño de la Doncella"

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study for "The Maiden's Dream" (An Allegory of Chastity)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1967

Culture

Spanish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296288

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove graph paper

Dimensions

actual: 27.8 x 22.5 cm (10 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r., in graphite: [Zóbel's mark]
• inscription: lower right, graphite, Spanish, in artist's hand: Estudio para el cuadro, "El sueño de / la doncella" / Otoño 1976 / [Zóbel's mark]
  [ Study for the painting "The Maiden's Dream" Fall 1976]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Paul J. Haldeman, Brookline, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1969.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Haldeman

Accession Year

1969

Object Number

1969.167.H

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Zóbel, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Ediciones Aldeasa (Madrid, Spain, 2003), repr. p. 170, p. 254
• Felipe Pereda and Manuel Fontan del Junco, ed., Zobel: The Future of the Past, exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, 2022), p. 123, fig. 53, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

• Zóbel, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 02/18/2003 - 05/05/2003
• The Future of the Past. Fernando Zobel and the History of Art, Museo Nacional del Prado, 11/15/2022 - 03/05/2023; Ayala Museum, Makati City, 09/09/2024 - 01/26/2025

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