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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.377
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
A Princess Stabbed to Death in the Presence of a King and his Councillors
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296689

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, with touches of black chalk and white gouache, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
7.4 × 13.2 cm (2 15/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/14/2002

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (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
1965.377
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, cat. no. 893B, p. 94, as School of Domenico Ghirlandaio
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 11, p. 11; vol. 2, repr. fig. 12, as Florentine, 15th century

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