1932.123: Saint Augustine Suffering from a Toothache

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.123

People

Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1420 - 1497 Pistoia, Italy)

Title

Saint Augustine Suffering from a Toothache

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1463-1465

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298545

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper laid down on mount (a warmer second brown ink used to strengthen several figures in the major figural group)

Dimensions

9.7 × 13.2 cm (3 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Bottom, Brown ink, Italian, in artist's hand: come santo aughustino a pie di un ficho in un orto gli venne un grande dolor di denti a modo che no[n] poteva parlare...preghate idio per me [?]. Venne un libro da cielo...
• inscription: Verso of mount center, Blue crayon: 376a ["a" is underlined]
• watermark: Partially cut-off. Two circles connected by L-shaped line, one circle with two diameters crossing at right angles.
• collector's mark: l.r., brown ink: L. 2184 (Jonathan Richardson, Sr., 1665-1745)
• collector's mark: l.l., blind stamp: L. 2445 (Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830)
• collector's mark: l.l. corner, brown ink: L. 2617 (W. Esdaile, 1758-1830)
• inscription: verso, along bottom edge, graphite: Probably [?]/
  Gio Bellini [?] Florentine School
  
  [parts of the inscription are not decipherable]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (Lugt 2184). Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445). WIlliam Esdaile, London (Lugt 2617). 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

1932.123

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Sidney Colvin, "The Story of St. Augustine and the Toothache, The Vasari Society for the reproduction of drawings by old masters, Oxford University Press (NY) (Oxford, England, 1907-1908), 1st Series, Part III, cat. no. 5, pl. 5, n.p.
• Georg Gronau, "Benozzo Gozzoli", Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann (Leipzig, 1909), vol. III, pp. 341-349, p. 348
• Adolfo Venturi, "Dai disegni di Benozzo Gozzoli", L'Arte (1910), vol. XIII, no. 4, pp. 288-291, p. 288
• Raimond Van Marle, Development of Italian Schools of Painting, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, Netherlands, 1923 - 1938), vol. XI, pp. 188-90, fig. 122
• H. S. Ede, Florentine Drawings of the Quattrocento, Robert M. McBride & Company (New York, 1926), no. 12, p. 16; pl. 12, n.p.
• Mario Salmi, "Un libro di disegni fiorentino del sec. XV", Rivista d'arte, Fratelli Alinari Editore (Florence, Italy, 1930), vol. XII, no. II, 1930, pp. 87-95, p. 95
• 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. 22-23; fig. 1, p. 23
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. I, pp. 11 and 83; vol. II, no. 529C, p. 47
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 15, p. 13-14; vol. 2, repr. fig. 8
• Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), p. 44 and no. 44, p. 111; fig. 44, n.p.
• Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, no. 422, pp. 473-4; vol. 4, pl. 322e, n.p.
• The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures, Books: An Exhibition in Honor of Leila Cook Barber, Professor of Art, Vassar College, 1931-1968, exh. cat., Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1968), cat. no. 8, pp. 5-6
• Anna Padoa Rizzo, Benozzo Gozzoli: pittore fiorentino, Editrice Edam (Florence, Italy, 1972), p. 130; fig. 136, n.p.
• Licia Ragghianti Collobi, Il Libro de' Disegni del Vasari, Valecchi (Florence, Italy, 1974), vol. I, p. 65; vol. II, fig. 176
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 8; cat. no. 5, p. 22; repr. p. 23
• Francis Ames-Lewis, Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1981), p. 134, fig. 121
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), pp. 6-7; cat. no. 11, p. 18
• Michael Wiemers, "Zur Funktion und Bedeutung eines Antikenzitats auf Benozzo Gozzolis Fresko 'Der Zug der Könige'", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1987), vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 441-470, f.n. 32, p. 456; repr. fig. 33, p. 458; f.n. 36, p. 461
• 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. 5, n.p., and pp. 17, 18, 22 and 24, repr. color
• Simon Pierse, "The Role of Drawing in the Fresco Paintings of Benozzo Gozzoli and in his Workshop" (October 1992), Essex University, pp. 72-73
• Diane Cole Ahl, Benozzo Gozzoli, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), p. 6; pp. 135-138; under no. 78, p. 261; p. 335; pl. 163, p. 136
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 9; repr. fig. 2, p. 8
• Peter Märker and Gisela Bergsträsser, Hundert Zeichnungen alter Meister aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, E. A. Seemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1998), under cat. no. 43, p. 106
• 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")
• Francis Ames-Lewis, The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2000), p. 30; f.n. 51, p. 281
• Robert Kiely, Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 172-177, repr. p. 174 as fig. 74

Exhibition History

• The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures, Books, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, 05/02/1968 - 06/09/1968
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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