- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1958.286
- People
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Pietro da Cortona, Italian (Cortona, Italy 1596 - 1669 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- Flying Angel; verso: The Figure of the Sorrowing Virgin
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 17th century
- Culture
- Italian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/297181
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black and brown chalk on white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
- Dimensions
- 32 × 36.3 cm (12 5/8 × 14 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: cross surmounting a circle (simliar to Briquet 3045; see also Mongan-Sachs W. 18)
- Provenance
- [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1958
- Object Number
- 1958.286
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Margaret Scott, An Exhibition of Old-Master Drawings for the Benefit of Public Health Nursing Milk and Emergency Fund, exh. cat., Junior League (Pittsburgh, 1933), cat. no. 7
Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 43, repr.
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 247, pp. 129-130; vol. 2, repr. fig. 130
Wallace J. Tomasini, Drawing and the Human Figure 1400-1964, exh. cat., University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA, 1964), cat. no. 164
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 48
Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 40, n.p., repr., n.p., pl. 40
Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 59, n.p., and p. 60, repr. (color)
- Exhibition History
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An Exhibition of Italian Paintings and Drawings of the Seventeenth Century, Durlacher Brothers, 01/18/1932 - 02/06/1932
An Exhibition of Old-Master Drawings for the Benefit of Public Health Nursing Milk and Emergency Fund, Junior League, Pittsburgh, 12/13/1933 - 01/06/1934
Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
Drawing and the Human Figure 1400-1964, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 05/28/1964 - 08/30/1964
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
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