1936.125: Pietà

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.125

People

Hans Leu the Younger, Swiss (Zurich 1490 - 1531 Gubel, near Zurich)

Title

Pietà

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1519

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298482

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and white gouache on green prepared paper

Dimensions

27.5 x 20.7 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left: HL [monogram] 1519

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gruenling. Weigel. Adalbert von Lanna, Prague [sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6 -11, 1910, lot 346]. Emile Wauters, Paris and Brussels (Lugt 911) sale, [Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, June 15-16, 1926, lot 97, repr.]. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sale [Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 392] to; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London] to; The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.125

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Georg Kasper Nagler, Die Monogrammisten und die Jenigen Bekannten und Unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen..., G. Franz (Munich, 1858-1879), vol. 3, p. 448
• Anzeiger für schweizerische Altertumskunde (Zurich, 1886-1938), vol. XXVI, p. 126
• Josef Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Gerlach & Schenk (Vienna, 1896-1908), vol. XI, pl. 1221
• Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, and Hans Vollmer, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, E.A. Seemann Verlag (Leipzig, 1907-1950), vol. 23, p. 143
• Katalog der berühmten sammlung des herrn barons Adalbert von Lanna in Prag: Volume II, Handzeichnungen alter meister und kupferstiche, etc., auct. cat., H. G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart, Germany, May 6 -11, 1910), lot 346
• Frederic Lees, The Art of the Great Masters: As Exemplified by Drawings in the Collection of Emile Wauters, membre de l'Academie royale de Belgique, Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA, 1913), fig. 93
• Dessins anciens. Part I, auct. cat., Frederik Muller & Cie. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 15, 1926 - June 16, 1926), no. 97
• Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 392
• Agnes Mongan, "A Gift of Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1937), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 22-34, p. 33, fig. 9
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 390, fig. 201
• Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 201, repr. as pl. III
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30 under "Brush drawing"
• Christine Christ-Von Wedel, Die Äbtissin, der Söldnerführer und ihre Töchter: Katharina von Zimmern im politischen Spannungsfeld der Reformationszeit, Theologischer Verlag Zürich (Zurich, 2019), p. 42, repr. as Abb. 11

Exhibition History

• Art of the Northern Renaissance, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 02/13/1967 - 04/01/1967
• Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
• Prints and Drawings from the Time of Holbein and Breugel, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1985 - 01/12/1986

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