1932.138: A Nude Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.138

People

Francesco Salviati, Italian (Florence, Italy 1510 - 1563 Rome, Italy)

Title

A Nude Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298509

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique paper

Dimensions

39.2 x 24.4 cm (15 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r. edge, black chalk: Giuseppe Salviati
• inscription: verso, backing sheet, u.r., black chalk: M. A. Buonarotti
• inscription: verso, backing sheet, l.r., graphite: Andrea del Sarto
• watermark: backing sheet: According to the results of an analysis in the file, the watermark is of D & C Blauw, Heawood 3268 -- the watermark and countermark are superimposed because the card was made of double thickness of paper.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 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

1932.138

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 42, p. 46, pl. XIX
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. I, p. 273 (n. 2) and vol. II, no. 55D, p. 5, as Andrea del Sarto, repr...
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 176, p. 95; vol. 2, repr. fig. 92 as Andrea del Sarto
• 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. 17, n.p., pl. 17, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 21, pp. 54-55, and p. 8, 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. 36, n.p., and p. 36, repr. (color)
• Luisa Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Leonardo-De Luca Editori (Rome, Italy, 1992), no. 28, p. 174, fig. 28
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
• Bacchiacca and his Friends; Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 01/10/1961 - 02/19/1961
• 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
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights
• Google Art Project

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