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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.115
People
School of Fra Angelico, Italian (nr. Vecchio, Italy c. 1400 - 1455 Rome, Italy)
Title
Pilate Washing His Hands
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297788

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brush and brown ink, white gouache, orange wash, incised, on pink-purple prepared parchment
Dimensions
8 x 6 cm (3 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: A5856
  • inscription: verso, l.l. corner, graphite: [?] 2
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: not decipherable

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold, [through Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, July 5-6, 1927, as part of lot 249]. Wiener Collection, [sold through C.G. Boerner and P. Graupe, Leipzig and Berlin, May 12, 1930, part of lot 20], sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.115
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collections Bellingham-Smith, De Robiano und Della Faille de Waerloos, auct. cat., Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 5, 1927 - July 6, 1927), no. 249, repr.
  • Dessins Anciens..., auct. cat., Ant. W. M. Mensing and Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam, July 5, 1927), p. 49, part of lot 249, repr.
  • Eine wiener Sammlung (I), auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Leipzig) and P. Graupe (Berlin) (Leipzig, Germany, May 12, 1930), no. 20, pl. VIII (as style of Fra Angelico)
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, under no. 175D, p. 18
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 3, p. 6; vol. 2, repr. fig. 3
  • The Life of Christ: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art Illustrating Episodes in the Life of Christ, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1948), cat. no. 95, p.19
  • Stefano Orlandi, Beato Angelico; monografia storica della vita e delle opere con un'appendice di nuovi documenti inediti, Leo S. Olschki (Florence, Italy, 1964), no. 2, p. 161
  • Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, no. 381, p. 451; vol. 4, pl. 309h, n.p.
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 3, p. 17
  • 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. 4a, repr. color, n.p.; pp. 13, 17, 18 and 22
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 36 under "Prepared paper"
  • Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, text and repr. fig. 7, p. 11; f.n. 12, p. 24; no. 12, p. 26
  • Penley Knipe, "Grounds on Paper: An Examination of Eight Early Drawings" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1998), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
  • Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, Fra Angelico, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2005), no. 47G, repr. (color) [as Zanobi Strozzi]

Exhibition History

  • The Life of Christ; a loan exhibition of works of art illustrating episodes in the life of Christ, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 03/12/1948 - 04/25/1948
  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
  • Fra Angelico, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/24/2005 - 01/30/2006

Verification Level

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