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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.64
People
Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)
Title
Studies for a Crucifixion; verso: Two Sketches of a Circumcision
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1582
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298078

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
Dimensions
31.5 x 21.2 cm (12 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Circle surmounted by a cross (Briquet 3075)
  • inscription: Verso, Brown ink: 381 Aqueta

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Hofer, Cambridge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.64
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alfred M. Frankfurter, "Master Drawings of the Renaissance: Notable and New Items in American Collections", ARTnews Annual (New York, NY, 1939), vol. XXXVII, no. 22, pp. 97-116, 180-185, repr. recto and verso, figs. 5 and 6
  • Rodolfo Pallucchini, Mostra di Paolo Veronese, exh. cat., Libreria Serenissima (Venice, 1939), no. 6 (of the drawings)
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 203, pp. 107-108; vol. 2, repr. figs. 109 (recto) and 110...
  • Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, 1940), cat. no. 98, n.p.
  • Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1972), p. 43, repr. recto and verso
  • Terisio Pignatti, Veronese (Venice, Italy, 1976), p. 88, under no. 186, repr. fig. 479
  • Jane Martineau and Charles Hope, The Genius of Venice 1500-1600, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1983), under no. 144
  • Richard Cocke, Veronese's Drawings: a Catalogue Raisonné, Sotheby's Publications (London, England, 1984), nos. 121, repr.
  • W.R. Rearick, The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1988), no. 94, pp. 158 and 185, repr, recto and verso
  • W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), p. 169
  • Jean Habert and Vincent Pomarède, Tiziano e la pittura del cinquecento a Venezia, exh. cat., Linea d'Ombra (Conegliano, 2004), p. 60, repr. p. 60
  • Virginia Brilliant and Frederick Ilchman, ed., Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, 2012), p. 267, cat. no. 42, pp. 188, 189, 203, 206, repr. p. 188 (recto and verso)

Exhibition History

  • Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 03/01/1940 - 03/31/1940
  • Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 10/01/1972 - 11/15/1972
  • The Art of Paolo Veronese 1528-1588, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/13/1988 - 02/20/1989
  • Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 12/07/2012 - 04/14/2013

Verification Level

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