Reclining Nude Youth; verso: Various Sketches | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.378
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Reclining Nude Youth; verso: Various Sketches
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296690

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on tan antique laid paper, squared in red chalk; verso: black and red chalk

Dimensions

16.8 × 22.8 cm (6 5/8 × 9 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: fleur-de-lis in a circle surmounted by a crown (similar to Briquet 7113)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Emile Wauters, Paris (Lugt 911). Unidentified collection (Lugt 2508). William Bates, Birmingham (Lugt 2604). Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, by 1930, 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: 1965.378
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Frederic Lees, The Art of the Great Masters: As Exemplified by Drawings in the Collection of Emile Wauters, membre de l'Academie royale de Belgique, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1913), pp. 177-178, fig. 197
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 92, p. 64

Verification Level

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