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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.424
People
Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian (Venice, Italy 1519 - 1594 Venice, Italy)
Title
Samson and the Philistine (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296419

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and white gouache on blue antique laid paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
38.5 × 23.2 cm (15 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., Brown ink: Tintoretto [inscribed in a 17th century hand--Ridolfi's]
  • inscription: l.r., Black ink, Italian: Dietro e questo vi e lo stesso gruppo
  • inscription: Verso, l.r., Brown ink: Tintoretto [crossed out in black chalk]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Paul J. Sachs, 1932, 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
1965.424
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln, Zeichnungen des Giacomo Tintoretto (Berlin, Germany, 1922), p. 25
  • Luitpold Dussler, "Two Unpublished Drawings by Giacomo Tintoretto", The Burlington Magazine (1927), vol. LI, p. 33
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 186, pp. 99-100; vol. 2, repr. fig. 98 (recto)
  • William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark, 1960), cat. no. 26, n.p., repr.
  • Wallace J. Tomasini, Drawing and the Human Figure 1400-1964, exh. cat., University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA, 1964), under cat. no. 33, n.p.
  • Richard F. Howard, Italian Drawings, Modern Paintings and Treasures from the Vatican: 19th Birmingham Festival of Arts, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1969), cat. no. 13, n.p.
  • 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), cat. no. 106, pp. 131-132, and pp. 11, 26, 45, and 106, repr. recto and verso,
  • William Bradford and Helen Braham, Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, exh. cat., University of London (London, England, 1991), under no. 69, p. 146
  • Lorenz Eitner and Betsy G. Fryberger, Stanford University Museum of Art: The Drawing Collection, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 1993), under no. 19, note 5
  • An Exhibition of Old Master Drawings and European Works of Art, auct. cat., Trinity Fine Art Ltd. (Florence, Italy, 1995), under cat. no. 4, p. 14
  • Jean-Francois Méjanès, The Timeless Eye: Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, exh. cat., ed. Philip Rylands, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, 1999), p. 82
  • Everett Fahy, Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe, Alberto Bruschi (Florence, Italy, 2000), cat. no. 576, p. 57, and pp. 351 and 413, repr. (verso) p. 308, fig. 576 and...
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, New York (New York, NY, January 24, 2001), under cat. no. 14, p. 30, and in the Erratum supplement under cat. no. 14, p. 2
  • Linda Wolk-Simon and Dr. Carmen Bambach, An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection: Correggio to Tiepolo, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, 2010), p. 76
  • John Marciari, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2018), p. 113 note 34

Exhibition History

  • Michelangelo's "Figura Serpentina", Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 01/07/1957 - 02/08/1957
  • Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, 03/17/1960 - 05/22/1960
  • Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962
  • Italian Old Master Drawings, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 03/14/1969 - 04/01/1969
  • The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011

Verification Level

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