1932.239: Seated Pope Blessing; verso: Writing, Numbers and Various Studies

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.239

People

Pier Francesco Mola, Italian (Coldreio, Switzerland 1612 - 1666 Rome, Italy)

Title

Seated Pope Blessing; verso: Writing, Numbers and Various Studies

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298277

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

Dimensions

actual: 9.2 x 6.2 cm (3 5/8 x 2 7/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.239

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. 294
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 33, pp. 78-79, and p. 9, repr.
• 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")
• "Painting the Pope: A Fascinating Insight into Papal Patronage", auct. cat. (November 2008), p. 104
• Francesco Petrucci, Pittura di ritratto a Roma: il Seicento, Andreina & Valneo Budai (Rome, 2008), vol. 2, p. 357

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