1965.430: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.430

People

Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)

Title

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1570

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296383

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk, brown ink and wash, and white gouache on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

24.9 x 19.8 cm (9 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
framed: 57.2 x 47 x 4.4 cm (22 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Angel (not in Briquet)
• (not assigned): Unframed for scholar. Nothing on verso. See image in paper lab object file (printed hard copy) and in paper lab "image archive" (digital).

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Lawrence, London. D. G. De Arozarena, Paris. John Postle Heseltine, London. [Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Berlin], sold (c. 1928); to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Mass., bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Drawing was on long-term loan to Fogg, 1928-1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.430

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Postle Heseltine, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Schools of North Italy (London, England, 1906), cat. no. 32, repr.
• Collections Bellingham-Smith, De Robiano und Della Faille de Waerloos, auct. cat., Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 1927 - July 6, 1927), cat. no. 8
• Die Zeichnung, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay (Berlin, 1928), Heft 4 (Zeichner der Italienischen Kunst), no. 160, repr.
• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 43, p. 46, pl. XX
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 204, p. 108; vol. 2, repr. fig. 111
• The Life of Christ: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art Illustrating Episodes in the Life of Christ, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1948), cat. no. 24, p. 4, repr.
• Six Centuries of Great Master Drawings, exh. cat., University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA, 1951), cat. no. 28
• James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 38 and 153
• Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, with a group of sixteenth-century Venetian drawings, exh. cat., Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, Canada, 1960), cat. no. 46
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 231, n.p., repr. color
• Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 22, pl. 48
• 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. 16, n.p., repr.
• David Rosand, "Three Drawings by Paolo Veronese", Pantheon (1971), vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 203-209, pp. 204 and 209 (n.19), repr. p. 208, fig. 6
• Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1972), p. 50, repr.
• Terisio Pignatti, Venetian Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1974), cat. no. 24, repr.
• Terisio Pignatti, Veronese (Venice, Italy, 1976), under cat. no. 322, fig. 691
• Richard Cocke, "Veronese's Independent Chiaroscuro Drawings", Master Drawings (1977), vol. XV, no. 3, pp. 259-268, cat. no. D-4, p. 266
• 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. 20, n.p., repr. n.p., pl. 20
• Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), pp. 135 and 136 (n.. 8), repr. fig. 109a
• Richard Cocke, Veronese's Drawings: a Catalogue Raisonné, Sotheby's Publications (London, England, 1984), cat. no. 29, repr., also under cat. no. 34
• Luciana Larcher Crosato, "I disegni di Paolo Veronese", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (1986), vol. XL, pp. 249-258, p. 251, repr. p. 250, fig. 3 (detail)
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 256, p. 221, repr. p. 221
• Myron Laskin, Jr. and Michael Pantazzi, Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: European and American Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, 1300-1800 (Ottawa, Canada, 1987), p. 292
• W.R. Rearick, The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1988), cat. no. 47, repr.; also pp. 65, 75, 95, 97, 98, 157 and 175.
• 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. 41, n.p., and pp. 40, 54, 68, repr. color
• Howard Coutts, "The Collecting of Veronese's Drawings", Nuovi Studi su Paolo Veronese, ed. Massimo Gemin, Arsenale (Venice, Italy, 1990), pp. 68-76, p. 75
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 33 under "Heightening/Highlights"
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 38, p. 28
• W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), p. 164
• Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 46, repr. pp. 34-35
• Virginia Brilliant and Frederick Ilchman, ed., Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, 2012), p. 267, cat. no. 33, pp. 167, 202, repr. p. 168
• David Rosand, Véronèse, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, France, 2012), pp. 334-335, repr. Fig. 286
• David Rosand, Paolo Veronese, ed. Mary E. Frank, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2023), pp. 270-271, repr. p. 271 as fig. 10.8

Exhibition History

• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• The Life of Christ; a loan exhibition of works of art illustrating episodes in the life of Christ, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 03/12/1948 - 04/25/1948
• Six Centuries of Master Drawings, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 05/01/1951 - 09/01/1951
• An Evening of Italian Art and Music, Boston University, Boston, 03/07/1955 - 03/14/1955
• Titian, Tintoretto and Paolo Veronese, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, 02/12/1960 - 03/13/1960
• 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
• Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 10/01/1972 - 11/15/1972; Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, 12/05/1972 - 12/31/1972
• Venetian Drawings from American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 09/21/1974 - 11/24/1974; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 12/01/1974 - 02/28/1975; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 03/01/1975 - 04/20/1975
• 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
• The Art of Paolo Veronese 1528-1588, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/13/1988 - 02/20/1989
• The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
• Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
• Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 12/07/2012 - 04/14/2013

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