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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.308
People
Paolo Farinati, Italian (Verona, Italy 1524 - 1606 Verona, Italy)
Title
Design for a Sopraporta
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Verona
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298541

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache over black chalk on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
24.6 × 41 cm (9 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Two crossed arrows (not in Briquet; unlike crossed arrows reproduced in Briquet, the long stems are formed by double lines)
  • inscription: l.l., brown ink: 1.83
  • collector's mark: l.r., brown ink: L. 624

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Rogers, London (Lugt 624). 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
1932.308
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 1, cat. no. 85, p. 62
  • Lionello Puppi, "Appunti su Paolo Farinati", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (1963), vol. XVII, pp. 106-118, f.n. 11, p. 116
  • 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. 21, n.p., pl. 21, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 23, pp. 58-59, and p. 23, repr.
  • Giovanna Baldissin Molli, "Qualche riflessione su un quadro poco noto e un disegno inedito di Paolo Farinati", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (1985), vol. XXXIX, pp. 47-54, p. 53; repr. fig. 10, p. 53; f.n. 18, p. 54
  • 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. 40, n.p., and p. 40, repr. (color)
  • Hélène Sueur and Sergio Marinelli, Le dessin à Vérone aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, exh. cat., Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1993), under cat. no. 21, p. 78
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella II")

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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