1932.177: View of St. Peter's and the Ponte Sant' Angelo

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.177

People

Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)

Title

View of St. Peter's and the Ponte Sant' Angelo

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298519

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash, and graphite, additions in gray pastel and black chalk at upper left, on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

20.6 x 23.5 cm (8 1/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: N. Poussin
• watermark: none

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

1932.177

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. 475, p. 247; vol. II, fig. 244, repr.
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Nicolas Poussin 1594-1665: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo (Milan, Italy, 1994), cat. no. R 221, p. 828, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con quattro stelle nere")

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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