1932.167: The Kneeling Angel of the Annunciation

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.167

People

Attributed to Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, Italian (Florence, Italy 1492 - 1544 Florence, Italy)

Title

The Kneeling Angel of the Annunciation

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298529

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on buff antique laid paper, slightly retouched with different red chalk; pricked for transfer

Dimensions

20.5 × 15 cm (8 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

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

1932.167

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, p. 47, no.528B
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 180, p. 97; vol. 2, repr. fig. 44
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con tre stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2017 - 12/12/2017

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