Goldsmith's Design; verso: Nude Figure in a Niche | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.389
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Goldsmith's Design; verso: Nude Figure in a Niche
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 16th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296334

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Metalpoint on blue-gray prepared antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1933, 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: 1965.389
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), no. 2510F (attributed to Sogliani)
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 106, pp. 68-69
Penley Knipe, "Grounds on Paper: An Examination of Eight Early Drawings" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1998), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim

Verification Level

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