1965.408: Group of Six Seated and Seven Standing Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.408

People

Copy after Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), Italian (Città della Pieve, Italy c. 1450 - 1523 Fontignano, Italy)
Previously attributed to Bernardino Pintoricchio, Italian (c. 1452 - 1513)

Title

Group of Six Seated and Seven Standing Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th-16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296317

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink strengthened with black ink and white gouache on dark cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream antique laid card

Dimensions

25.2 x 17.4 cm (9 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Inscribed, lower right corner: JCR (Lugt 1433)
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir John Charles Robinson (Lugt 1433). [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, 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

1965.408

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy (London, England, 1866), pp. 285-293
• A. Amersdorffer, Kritische Studien über das Venezianische Skizzenbuch (Berlin, Germany, 1901), pl. III
• Raimond Van Marle, Development of Italian Schools of Painting, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, Netherlands, 1923 - 1938), vol. XIV, p. 286, repr.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 34, pp. 25-28; vol. 2 repr. fig. 30, as Bernardino Pinturicchio
• Arthur E. Popham and Philip Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Trustees of the British Museum (London, England, 1950), vol. I, under no. 217
• Humanism North and South: Art of the Renaissance, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1956), cat. no. 11
• Augusta Ghidiglia Quintavalle, "Alessandro Araldi", Rivista dell'instituto nazionale di archaelogia e storia dell'arte (Rome, Italy, 1958), vol. VII, p. 310
• Luigi Grassi, I disegni italiani del Trecento e Quattrocento; scuole fiorentina, senese, marchigiana, umbra (Venice, Italy, 1961), p. 221, pl. 112
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 239, n.p., repr. color as Pinturicchio
• Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 20, pl. 68
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 7, n.p., repr.
• Hugo Wagner, Raffael im Bildnis (Bern, Switzerland, 1969), no. 5
• Felton Lewis Gibbons, Catalogue of the Italian Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1977), under no. 494
• Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, Abaris Books (New York, 1978), p. 100, pl. 68
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 22, p. 19, as Bernardino Pinturicchio
• Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Disegni Umbri del Rinascimento da Perugino a Raffaello, exh. cat., Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy, 1982), under cat. no. 83/50, pp. 211-212

Exhibition History

• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Humanism North and South: Art of the Renaissance, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 03/01/1956 - 03/31/1956
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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