1928.153: Saint Lawrence Distributing the Treasures of the Church to the Poor and Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1928.153
- People
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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
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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
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- 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
- 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), 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
Verification Level
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