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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.63
People
Agostino Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1557 - 1602 Parma, Italy)
Title
Studies of Grotesques
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th-17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297294

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
25.2 x 37 cm (9 15/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herbert Straus, Aquired from the Herbert Straus Collection by th, 1933.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, Acquired from the Herbert Straus Collection, 1933, Transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1955.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Busch-Reisinger Museum, acquired in 1933 from the Herbert Straus Collection
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.63
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1979), p. 48, fig. Q
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 13 and 57, repr. fig. 41
  • Diane DeGrazia, "Drawings as Means to an End: Preparatory Methods in the Carracci School and Baroque Workshop", The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance..., ed. Andrew Ladis, The University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA, 1995), p. 168, fig. 2
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 31, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

Verification Level

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