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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.153
People
Jean-Robert Ango, French (active 1759 - after 1773)
After Giovanni Serodine, Italian (c. 1600 - 1630)
After Dirck van Baburen, Dutch (c. 1595 - 1624)
Previously attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Previously attributed to after Anthony van Dyck, Flemish (Antwerp, Belgium 1599 - 1641 London)
Previously attributed to after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian (Cento, Italy 1591 - 1666 Bologna, Italy)
Title
Saint Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church to the Poor and Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Copies after Two Religious Paintings: "Saint Lawrence Distributing Alms" (attributed to Serodine) and "Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles" (Dirck van Baburen)
Former Title: Sketches after Two Religious Paintings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298360

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper strips adhered to face, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
21 x 31.9 cm (8 1/4 x 12 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: three lines of block letters
  • inscription: lower center, graphite: de l'Ecole du / Guerchin . / à St. Laurent / hors des murs .
  • inscription: lower right, graphite: Vandeik . Palais giustiniani .
  • inscription: mount, lower center, black ink: 53 [encircled] 53 [illegible] [encircled]
  • inscription: verso, right, graphite: 56 / 28 [underlined] / 84
  • inscription: verso, right, black ink: Fogg / Art Museum / 28.153 [encircled]
  • inscription: mount, upper left, graphite: [illegible]
  • inscription: mount, upper right, graphite: [illegible]
  • inscription: mount, upper left, graphite: 5
  • inscription: mount, upper right, graphite: 5

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
René Gimpel, Paris (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928, inv. no. 1928.153

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of René Gimpel
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.153
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. I, cat. no. 604, pp. 325-26, vol. III, fig. 311, repr. (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard)
  • Alexandre Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1961-1970), vol. IV, cat. no. 2540, p. 186 (as Jean-Robert Ango)
  • Alexandre Ananoff, "Fragonard et Ango, collaborateurs de Saint-Non", Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, J. Bauer (Paris, 1962), pp. 117-20, p. 118
  • Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 69, pp. 168-69, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1986), under cat. nos. 75 and 110, pp. 353, 362
  • Silvia Danesi Squarzina, Caravaggio e i Giustiniani: Toccar con mano una collezione del Seicento, exh. cat., Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), p. 296

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