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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.405
People
School of Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), Italian (Città della Pieve, Italy c. 1450 - 1523 Fontignano, Italy)
Title
Young Man Facing Right
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296316

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and white gouache on gray-green prepared antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
26.4 × 14 cm (10 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., brown ink: Pietro Perugino Dis...[the last part of the inscription appears to be overwritten, possibly with "24"]
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, graphite: 50
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: A70 [?]
  • collector's mark: mount, l.r., black ink

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Banks. Edward John Poynter [sale, Sotheby's, London, April 25, 1918, lot 114]. [Knoelder & Co., New York] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, by 1927, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.405
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of the Poynter Sale, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, April 24, 1918), no. 114
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 30, pp. 23-24; vol. 2, repr. fig. 29, as school of Perugino

Exhibition History

  • Technique exhibit, Fitchburg Art Association, Fitchburg, 01/01/1932 - 12/31/1932
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947

Verification Level

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