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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.159
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Saint Jerome
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297007

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache, on cream antique laid paper prepared with orange-brown wash, retouched with traces of brown ink, pricked for transfer, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.1 × 10.9 cm (8 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: l.l.: L. 2445 (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: XV Italian
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 98 s [8 is underlined and s is supersript above 8]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Thomas Lawrence, London, England (Lugt 2445). [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London], sold (by 1927); to Paul J. Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.159
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, no. 20A, p. 2, as Alunno di Domenico
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 43, pp. 37-38; vol. 2, repr. fig 39 as Umbro-Florentine...
  • Carlo L. Ragghianti and Gigetta dalli Regoli, Firenze 1470-1480: Disegni dal modello, Pollaiuolo/Leonardo/Botticelli/Filippino, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte dell'Università di Pisa (Pisa, Italy, 1975), cat. no. 20A (appendix), p. 140 as circle of Bartolomeo di Giovanni
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 29, p. 20, and p. 7 as Umbro-Florentine School, 15th century

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

Verification Level

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