The Assumption of the Virgin | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.375
People: Copy after Giulio Campi, Italian (Cremona, Italy c. 1508 - 1573 Cremona, Italy)
Copy after Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian (Valduggia, Italy 1480 - 1546 Milan, Italy)
Title: The Assumption of the Virgin
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 16th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Cremona
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296688

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown wash heightened with white gouache on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to wove card, decorated mount

Dimensions

46 x 31 cm (18 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: lower left: [G]audencio Milaso [in Roman letters, below which in a seventeenth-century hand is:] Casa Ferrari Sc. di Pietro Perugino [in running script; another line is cut away and the same hand has changed "Milaso" to "Milanese"]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: F. Abbott. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 1929, 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: 1965.375
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. 88, p. 63; vol. 2, repr. fig. 71 as Gaudenzio Ferrari
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. 61, p. 12 as Gaudenzio Ferrari

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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1965.375: The Assumption of the Virgin