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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.360
People
Attributed to Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio), Italian (Genoa, Italy 1639 - 1709 Rome, Italy)
Copy after Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian (Naples, Italy 1598 - 1680 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Jan de Bisschop, Dutch (Amsterdam, Netherlands 1628 - 1671 The Hague, Netherlands)
Title
Truth (after Bernini)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296684

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash, some traces of black chalk, on cream antique-laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
34.2 × 22.8 cm (13 7/16 × 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Top center, Brown ink, Italian: L'istessa verita
  • inscription: Upper right, Black ink, Italian: Disegno di Guido [18th-century hand]
  • inscription: Lower left, Black ink, Italian: Guido [inscribed over another word in brown ink, now unreadable]
  • inscription: Lower left, Brown ink, Italian: [Illegible]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Horace Walpole, London (Lugt 1386). Sir John Charles Robinson, London (Lugt 1433). Emile Wauters, Paris (Lugt 911). Paul J. and Meta Sachs, Cambridge, 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
1965.360
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 215, p. 117 as copy after Bernini
  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, checklist (unpublished, 1980), no. 19 as Jan de Bisschop
  • Hans Kauffmann, "Ammerkungen zu Berninis Inszenierung seiner Bildwerke", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1985), no. 1, pp. 101-108, p. 104
  • Matthias Winner, "Veritas", Bernini Scultore: La Nascita del Barocco in Casa Borghese, Edizioni de Luca (Rome, Italy, 1998), fig. 11, p. 304, as Jan de Bischop

Exhibition History

  • The Draughtsman at Work. Drawing in the Golden Century of Dutch Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/04/1981
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/21/2023 - 10/23/2023

Verification Level

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