1965.357: A Flying Angel; verso: A Flying Angel Playing a Lute

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.357

People

Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to School of Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)

Title

A Flying Angel; verso: A Flying Angel Playing a Lute

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1504

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296683

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on gray-brown antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

24.5 x 19.2 cm (9 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Verso, upper left, Brown ink: 37
• inscription: Verso, center right (continues over the additional flap of paper), Brown ink: no. 10
• inscription: Verso, center right, under flap of paper, Brown ink: Mariotto Albert

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francis Abbott, Edinburgh. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, 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

1965.357

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 212C, p. 24
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 63, pp. 51-52; vol. 2, repr. figs. 54 (recto) and 55 (verso)

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