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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.376
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
A Princess Captured by Roman Soldiers Outside the Walls of a Town
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1490
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296721

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, with touches of red chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
7.7 × 19.7 cm (3 1/16 × 7 3/4 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
1965.376
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. 893A, 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. 10, p. 11; vol. 2, repr. fig. 11, as Florentine, 15th century

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