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A woman stands in a corseted dress wearing a transparent veil.

A woman stands upright with her torso slightly pointed downwards. She wears a long, corseted dress with a stripe down the middle. Her left foot peeks out from the bottom of her skirt, displaying a high platform shoe. Her long, transparent veil drapes down the woman’s dress and she holds the veil away from her eyes with her hands.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.314
People
? Gentile Bellini, Italian (Venice, Italy 1429 - 1507 Venice, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title
Standing Woman; verso: Turbaned Figures Standing and Sitting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298619

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown ink and black chalk
Dimensions
18.1 × 10.3 cm (7 1/8 × 4 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/12/2002
  • inscription: lower left, brown ink: corterli [partially cut-off]
  • collector's mark: lower right, black ink : [ER] [Lugt 897, mark of Eugène Rodrigues]
  • inscription: verso, top center, graphite: Satz [?]
  • inscription: verso, l.r., purple crayon: OUC
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    XVI
    [upside down]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Eugène Rodrigues, Paris, France (Lugt 897). 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
1932.314
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. 44, p. 38, as Venetian, 15th century
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella II")

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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