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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.246
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Enthroned Pope Healing a Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298291

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, and gray and brown wash over black chalk, laid down on a decorated mount, framing lines in brown ink

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Chevalier de Damery, Paris (his mark, Lugt 2862); 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
1932.246
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The Pope, seated on a throne at the right, leans forward toward the possessed person, who is held on the steps of the papal throne by a half-nude figure; other figures stand in the left background in the shadow of an arcaded and columned baroque building; a group of prelates stands at the right, and in the foreground are Roman warriors and female figures.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 619, p. 329
  • 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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