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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.30
People
Giulio Campi, Italian (Cremona, Italy c. 1508 - 1573 Cremona, Italy)
Previously attributed to (?) Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)
Title
A Seated Saint or Prophet
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Cremona
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297055

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, black chalk and graphite on cream antique laid paper, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
16.3 × 10.4 cm (6 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: from old mount [now cut up and placed in curatorial file], red chalk: 43
  • inscription: from old mount [now cut up and placed in curatorial file], graphite: 219 A [with a circle drawn around the inscription]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham, Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cunningham
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.30
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Giulio Bora, "Nota sui disegni Lombardi del Cinque e Seicento (a proposito di una mostra)", Paragone (July 1984), vol. 35, no. 413, pp. 3-35, p. 11; repr. pl. 17, n.p.
  • Mina Gregori and Giulio Bora, I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, exh. cat., Electa Editrice (Milan, Italy, 1985), cat. no. 2.6.18, pp. 288-89, repr. p. 288
  • Director's Report / Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1987 - 1988), repr. p. 25
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 37; repr. fig. 25, p. 39; no. 25, p. 256
  • Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, July 7, 1992), under lot 124, p. 15

Exhibition History

  • I Campi e la cultura artistica cremonese del Cinquecento, Assessorato all'Istruzione e alla Cultura, Cremona, 04/27/1985 - 08/01/1985
  • Art of the Renaissance in Lombardy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/28/1988 - 07/24/1988

Verification Level

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