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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.240
People
Giacomo Cavedone, Italian (Sassuolo, Italy 1577 - 1660 Bologna, Italy)
Title
Saint Ambrose
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298262

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk heightened with pink-white gouache on dark tan antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
28.5 x 39.2 cm (11 1/4 x 15 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: V in a crowned and winged escutcheon (L. 2501)
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Three fleur-de-lis

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Unidentified collector (Lugt 2501). Unidentified collector (Lugt 2781). 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
1932.240
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 242, p. 126; vol. 2, repr. fig. 125
  • A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 10
  • Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 276, n.p., repr. color
  • Frederick Cummings and Rudolf Wittkower, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Detroit, MI and New York, NY, 1965), cat. no. 89, p. 91, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 37, n.p., pl. 37, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 29, pp. 70-71, and p. 9, repr.
  • 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. 55, n.p., and p. 60, repr. (color)
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con due stelle rosse")
  • Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under no. 2501
  • Catherine Phillips, "Giacomo Cavedone: Drawings from the Cobenzl Collection, now in the Hermitage", Master Drawings (Autumn 2018), vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 317-334, p. 330, fig. 41

Exhibition History

  • A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
  • Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/06/1965 - 05/09/1965
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 09/11/1981 - 11/08/1981

Verification Level

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