1965.394: A Female Figure Leaning Forward and a Figure of a Kneeling Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.394

People

Filippino Lippi, Italian (Prato, Italy 1457 - 1504 Florence, Italy)

Title

A Female Figure Leaning Forward and a Figure of a Kneeling Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296479

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and white gouache with traces of black and red chalk and later retouching in loss areas, on gray prepared antique laid paper

Dimensions

22.8 × 19 cm (9 × 7 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.l., black ink (or possibly faded blue ink?): L. 874
• inscription: verso, bottom center, graphite: 20

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

B. Grahame (1878).[1] Edward John Poynter, London (Lugt 874) [sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 24-25, 1918, lot 74,[2] sold; to [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, 1918, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

[1] Per Mongan-Sachs; it is not clear whether "1878" refers to the date of acquisition or dispersal.

[2] Lugt notes: "...Ecole florentine, Figure drapée 120 [pounds] et mème prix pour une étude de deux figures drapées par Lippi..."

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.394

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue of the Poynter Sale, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, April 24, 1918), cat. no. 74
• Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins et d'Estampes. Marques estampillées et écrites de collections particulières et publiques. . . ., Vereenigde Drukkerijen (Amsterdam, 1921), p. 155
• Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi [1st ed.], Verlag A. Schroll & Co., g.m.b.h. (Vienna, Austria, 1935), cat. no. 230
• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), cat. no. 16, repr., n.p.
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1271G, p. 140
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 21, pp. 16-17; vol. 2, repr. fig. 20
• Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat., Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1940), cat. no. 66, p. 20; repr. no. 66, p. 32
• 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. 5, n.p., repr.
• Innis Howe Shoemaker, "Filippino Lippi as a Draughtsman" (Ph.D Diss., Columbia University, 1975), Unpublished, pp. 44, 108, 110, 111, 447; cat. no. 4, pp. 137-138; repr. fig. 4, p. 478
• 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
• Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, exh. cat., National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (London, England, 1999), p. 9; repr. color p. 302; cat. no. 74 and fig. 116 (UV photo), p. 303

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
• Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• 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
• Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, National Gallery, London, 10/20/1999 - 01/16/2000

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