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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.289
People
Giovanni Boldini, Italian (Ferrara, Italy 1842 - 1931 Paris, France)
Title
In the Studio
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1873
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297670

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper
Dimensions
25.4 x 35 cm (10 x 13 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: Boldini 73

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Royal Cortissoz, sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, February 1934 [1], bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943

[1] Winthrop purchased this drawing from Cortissoz, who was in need of money or, as he put it, "a rescue in a moment of trouble." He sold Winthrop drawings by Degas, Dewing, and Mowbray at the same time. See Cortissoz-Winthrop file in FAM archives.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.289
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 14, 51, 53, repr p. 54 as fig. 19, cat. no. 7 p. 90
  • 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. 77, n.p., and pp. 8 and 73, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977

Verification Level

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