1936.64: Studies for a Crucifixion; verso: Two Sketches of a Circumcision

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

Permissions

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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

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