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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1938.61
People
Giulio Romano, Italian (Rome 1499? - 1546 Mantua)
Title
The Adoration of the Magi
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298283

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream wove decorated mount
Dimensions
28.3 x 41.9 cm (11 1/8 x 16 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Peter Lely (Lugt 2091). William Mayor, London (Lugt 2799). John Postle Heseltine (Lugt 1507). Therese Kuhn Straus (Mrs. Herbert N. Straus), New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus
Accession Year
1938
Object Number
1938.61
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. 168, pp. 92-93
  • 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. 14, n.p., pl. 14, 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. 29, n.p., and p. 32, repr. (color)
  • Konrad Oberhuber and Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Fürstenhöfe der Renaissance: Giulio Romano und die Klassiche Tradition, exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum/Graphischen Sammlung Albertina (Vienna, Austria, 1989), no. IV/111, n.p., p. 190, repr. fig. IV/111
  • Janet Cox-Rearick and Richard Aste, Giulio Romano: Master Designer: An Exhibition of Drawings in Celebration of the Five Hundreth Anniversary of his Birth, exh. cat., ed. Janet Cox-Rearick, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery (New York, NY, 1999), cat. no. 45, pp. 146-147, repr., and p. 141

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Giulio Romano: Master Designer, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, 09/16/1999 - 11/27/1999

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