1932.251: Emaciated Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.251

People

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian (Cento, Italy 1591 - 1666 Bologna, Italy)

Title

Emaciated Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298260

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

25.3 × 20 cm (9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevisio, Turin (Lugt 577). Josef Carl von Klinkosch, Vienna (Lugt 577) [sale, C.J. Wawra, Vienna, April 15, 1889, possibly lot 120]. Dr. A. Ritter von Wurzbach-Tannenberg, Vienna (Lugt 2587). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.251

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 266, fig. 135
• David M. Stone, Guercino: Master Draftsman, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1991), p. 214, illus. p. 235
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con tre stelle rosse")

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/20/2019 - 10/23/2019

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