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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.242
People
School of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian (Milan or Caravaggio, Italy 1571 - 1610 Porto Ercole, Italy)
Title
Soldiers Playing Cards
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298278

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
23.4 × 20.3 cm (9 3/16 × 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, in an eighteenth-century hand: Carravaggio

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 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
1932.242
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), no. 229
  • 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")

Verification Level

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