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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.24
People
Israël Silvestre, French (Nancy 1621 - 1691 Paris)
Title
Casino del Monte (Villa Ludovisi)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1650
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297838

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, watercolor, and gray and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, with framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
20.6 × 31.6 cm (8 1/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon and 13th Earl of Lindsey, London and Gilmilnscroft House, East Ayrshire; sale [Sotheby’s, London, 17 July, 1935, part of lot 5]; [Colnaghi, London (by 1935)] sold; to Philip Hofer, 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
1939.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gustavus Mayer, Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (London, 1935), no. 15
  • Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 29
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 595, fig. 303
  • Clovis Whitfield, Caravaggio's Eye, Paul Holberton Publishing (London, 2011), p. 159, fig. 113
  • Laura Bartoni, Lusingare la vista: il colore e la magnificenza a Roma tra tardo Rinascimento e Barocco, ed. Adriano Amendola, Edizioni Musei Vaticani (Vatican City, 2017), p. 141, fig. 3
  • Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492-1692, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden/Boston, 2019), p. 385, fig. 20.8

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 10/01/1935 - 11/01/1935
  • Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
  • Guercino and the Ludovisi Age in Rome. The Triumph of Painting, Scuderie del Quirinale, 10/30/2024 - 01/26/2025

Verification Level

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