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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.373
People
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian (Genoa, Italy 1609 - 1664 Mantua, Italy)
Title
The Nativity
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Liguria, Genoa
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296322

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on white antique laid paper discolored to dark cream/tan
Dimensions
26.1 x 39.2 cm (10 1/4 x 15 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Richardson. Richard Houlditch, Jr., London (Lugt 2214). Earl of Warwick, Warwick Castle, Warwick (Lugt 2600). John Postle Heseltine. Richard Ederheimer; to Paul J. Sachs (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
1965.373
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 16
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 240, p. 125; vol. 2, repr. fig. 124
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 41, n.p., repr., n.p., pl. 41
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 61, n.p., and p. 62, repr. (color)
  • Master Drawings: 1530-1920 (January 24 to February 3, 2012), auct. cat., W. M. Brady & Co., Inc. (New York, 2012), under no. 11

Exhibition History

  • Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
  • An Exhibition of Italian Paintings and Drawings of the Seventeenth Century, Durlacher Brothers, 01/18/1932 - 02/06/1932
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/19/2023 - 02/01/2024

Verification Level

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