1932.337: A Kneeling Figure

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.337

People

Ludovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian (Castello di Cigoli, Italy 1559 - 1613 Rome, Italy)

Title

A Kneeling Figure

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th-17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298623

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash with white gouache on green-brown prepared antique laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

39 × 28.5 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.r.edge: L. 2092 (Sir Peter Lely)
• watermark: Ladder on shield over star (Briquet 5927)
• inscription: mount, l.l.edge, brown ink: Ludovico Cigoli

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir Peter Lely, London (Lugt 2092). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, 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

1932.337

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. 245, p. 128; vol. 2, repr. fig. 128
• Frederick Cummings and Rudolf Wittkower, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Detroit, MI and New York, NY, 1965), cat. no. 125, p. 116, repr.
• Joan Nissman and Howard Hibbard, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1969), cat. no. 13, p. 25, and p. 10
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 26, pp. 64-65, repr.
• Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), cat. no. 11, p. 38, and pp. 16 and 26, repr. fig. 11
• 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. 49, n.p., and p. 44, repr. color
• Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., University of Washington Press and Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 16, pp. 94-95, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A")
• Thomas McGrath, "Florentine Baroque Drawings at the Fogg Museum of Art", Apollo (January 2004), CLIX, no. 503, pp. 14-20, p. 14

Exhibition History

• Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/06/1965 - 05/09/1965
• Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/16/1969 - 06/15/1969
• The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979
• From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991 - 12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992 - 03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992 - 05/24/1992

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