1932.129: Pietà with Saints Anthony Abbot and Paul the Hermit and Angels (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.129

People

Filippino Lippi, Italian (Prato, Italy 1457 - 1504 Florence, Italy)

Title

Pietà with Saints Anthony Abbot and Paul the Hermit and Angels (recto and verso)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Old title: "Pietà with Saints and Angels"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1495

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298515

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and brown wash over black chalk

Dimensions

25.2 × 18.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Greek cross in circle (similar to Briquet 5542)

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

1932.129

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, Oxford University Press (NY) and Oxford University Press (UK) (Oxford, England, 1905 - 1935), Part IV, nos. 2 (verso) and 3 (recto), n.p., pl. 2 (verso) and pl. 3 (recto)
• Joseph Meder, Die Handzeichnung: ihre Technik und Entwicklung (Vienna, Austria, 1919), p. 36; fig. 11 (recto), p. 37
• Raimond Van Marle, Development of Italian Schools of Painting, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, Netherlands, 1923 - 1938), p. 365, figs. 236 (recto) and 237 (verso)
• Heinrich Leporini, Die Künstlerzeichnung: Ein Handbuch für Liebhaber und Sammler (Berlin, Germany, 1928), fig. 73 (verso), p. 175
• Alfred Scharf, "Studien zu einigen Spätwerken des Filippino Lippi", Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen (1931), vol. LII, pp. 201-22, pp. 210-13; f.n. 1, p. 211; figs. 8 (recto) and 9 (verso), pp. 210-211
• John Walker III, "Cristofano Robetta and Filippino Lippi", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1933), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 33-36
• Agnes Mongan, "The Loeser Collection of Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1933), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 23-24; verso repr. on cover
• Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi [1st ed.], Verlag A. Schroll & Co., g.m.b.h. (Vienna, Austria, 1935), pp. 48-49 and 81; cat. no. 185, p. 185, p. 120; pls. 172 (recto) and 173 (verso)
• Katharine Neilson, Filippino Lippi: A Critical Study (Cambridge, MA, 1938), pp. 107-9; figs. 46 (verso) and 47 (recto), n.p.
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1271H, p. 140
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 22, p. 17; vol. 2, repr. figs. 21 (recto) and 22 (verso)
• Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 36, n.p.
• Charles de Tolnay, The Youth of Michelangelo (Princeton, NJ, 1943), vol. 1, p. 149
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), no. 17, p. 34; repr. (recto), p. 35
• Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi [2nd ed.], Verlag A. Schroll & Co., g.m.b.h. (Vienna, Austria, 1950), pp. 30-31 and 46; f.n. 101, p. 56; repr. pl. 101 (recto), n.p.
• Maria Fossi, Mostra di disegni di Filippino Lippi e Piero di Cosimo, exh. cat. (Florence, Italy, 1955), under no. 38, p. 14
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 116, n.p., repr. color (recto)
• Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 59
• Ludovico Borgo, "Fra Bartolommeo, Albertinelli, and the 'Pietà' for the Certosa of Pavia", The Burlington Magazine (September 1966), vol. CVIII, pp. 463-69, p. 464, f.n. 9
• Martin Weinberger, Michelangelo the Sculptor, 2 vols. (London, England and New York, NY, 1967), vol. 1, p. 73, pls. 21.2 (recto) and 21.3 (verso)
• Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
• Innis Howe Shoemaker, "Filippino Lippi as a Draughtsman" (Ph.D Diss., Columbia University, 1975), Unpublished, cat. no. 128, pp. 417-428, and pp. 18, 48, 54, 55, 125, 126, 324, 325, 353, 406, 415, 429; repr. figs. 128r (verso) and 128v (recto), p. 536
• Ebria Feinblatt, Old Master Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Allanheld & Schram (Los Angeles, 1976), pp. 8-9; repr. no. 13 (recto), p. 19; cat. no. 13, p. 20
• Françoise Viatte and Roseline Bacou, Collections de Louis XIV: dessins, albums, manuscrits, exh. cat. (Paris, France, 1977), under no. 7, p. 53
• Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 464-469, fig. 1 recto, p. 464; p. 466
• Geneviève Monnier and Bernice Rose, Drawing, Skira Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland/New York, NY, 1979), p. 92; repr. recto, p. 93
• 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. 4, n.p., pl. 4, repr. (recto), fig. 6, repr. (verso)
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 8, pp. 28-29, and p. 8; repr. recto, p. 29
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), p. 7; repr. no. 13 (recto), p. 16; cat. no. 13, p. 18
• Chris Fischer, "Filippino Lippi, Mariotto Albertinelli, Fra' Bartolommeo, e l'Ancona per l'altar maggiore della Certosa di Pavia", Perugino, Lippi, e la bottega di San Marco alla Certosa di Pavia, 1495-1511, Cantini edizioni d'arte (Florence, Italy, 1986), pp. 61-63; figs. 22 (verso) and 23 (recto), p. 61
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 254 and repr. (recto), p. 219
• 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. 12, n.p., and pp. 18 and 22, recto repr. color
• Chris Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo: Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance: A Selection from the Rotterdam Albums and Landscape Drawings from Various Collections, exh. cat. (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1990), p. 263; fig. 170 (v.), p. 262; fig. 171 (r.), p. 263; f.n. 137, 140, p. 290
• Giulia Fusconi and Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Drawing: The Great Collectors, ed. Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino/Amilcare Pizzi Editore (Turin, Italy, 1992), vol. 2, fig. 275 (recto), p. 239
• Jonathan Nelson, "Filippino Lippi at the Medici Villa of Poggia a Caiano", Florentine Drawing at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ed. Elizabeth Cropper, Nuova Alfa Editoriale (Bologna, Italy, 1994), pp. 159-174, p. 172 and f.n. 36; fig. 13 (recto), n.p.
• Chris Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo et son atelier: Dessins et peintures des collections françaises, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1994), under no. 71 and figs. 28 (recto) and 29 (verso), p. 112
• Joachim Poeschke and Russell Stockman, Michelangelo and His World: Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance (New York, NY, 1996), p. 76, fig. 8 (recto)
• Alexander Perrig, "Das 'Zeitalter Michelangelos' ", Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, ed. Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Munich, Germany, 1997), pp. 10-28, pp. 13-14; fig. 3, p. 11
• George R. Goldner and Dr. Carmen Bambach, The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1997), no. 87, p. 283; repr. pp. 284-285; pp. 18, 21; under nos. 83, 85, 91, 94A, 111
• Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig, Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York, 1997), pp. 13-14, repr. fig. 3 (recto), p. 11
• Francis Ames-Lewis, Review of "The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle", Master Drawings (1999), vol. XXXVII, no. 1, pp. 62-66, pp. 63 and 65; figs. 1 (recto) and 2 (verso), p. 64
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con una stella nera")
• James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 1, pp. 25-26, and p. 13, repr. p. 25, fig. 1R (recto) and fig. 1V...
• Patrizia Zambrano, Filippino Lippi, Electa (Milan, 2004), pp. 380, 401, 557 n. 25

Exhibition History

• Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
• The Drawing, Pomona College Gallery, 09/22/1960 - 10/16/1960
• Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
• Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 04/29/1976 - 06/13/1976
• 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
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
• The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/28/1997 - 01/11/1998
• Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001

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