1932.299: Nude Youth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.299

People

Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian (Sant'Angelo in Vado, Italy 1529 - 1566 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to (?) Ludovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian (Castello di Cigoli, Italy 1559 - 1613 Rome, Italy)

Title

Nude Youth

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1550-1555

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298614

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and brown ink, gray wash, and traces of white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

26.6 x 17.6 cm (10 1/2 x 6 15/16 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

1932.299

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. 1, cat. no. 246, pp. 128-129, as Cigoli (?)
• 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. 22, n.p., pl. 22, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 24, pp. 60-61, and p. 9, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 40, repr. fig. 36
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella II")
• Stephen M. Bailey, "A Study for the 'Conversion of St Paul': Taddeo Zuccaro's early ideas for the altar wall of the Frangipani Chapel", Apollo (March 2003), vol. 157, no. 493, pp. 8-13, p. 13 (n.24)
• Edward J. Olszewski, A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, Harvey Miller/Brepols Publishers (London, 2008), under cat. no. 397, fig. 397a
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 77, repr.

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
• Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 11/17/1989 - 01/14/1990; National Academy of Design, New York, 03/13/1990 - 04/29/1990
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017

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