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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.279
People
Attributed to Boccaccio Boccaccino, Italian (Ferrara, Italy 1466 - 1525 Cremona, Italy)
Previously attributed to follower of Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco), Italian (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy 1477 - 1510 Venice, Italy)
Title
Standing Cavalier with Back Turned
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1502
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298639

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk, with one black chalk line across top, on cream antique laid cream paper with remnants of gray mount on verso
Dimensions
27.7 × 13.9 cm (10 7/8 × 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., brown ink: Giogioné [in seventeenth century hand]
  • inscription: verso, l.r., graphite: uo/s 12.6.95
  • inscription: top center, graphite: 09 [?]
  • watermark: Watermark visible during examination by Craigen Bowen. Beta required.

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
1932.279
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln, Venezianische Zeichnungen der Hochrenaissance (Berlin, Germany, 1925), p. 18, in a footnote (not numbered) as Giorgione
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 98, p. 66, as late follower of Giorgione
  • Antonio Morassi, Giorgione, Ulrico Hoepli (Milan, Italy, 1942), p. 122 and no. 135, p. 175, pl. 135 as Giorgione (?)
  • Marco Tanzi, Boccaccio Boccaccino, Edizioni dei Soncino (Soncino, 1991), p. 109 as Boccaccio Boccaccino
  • Marco Chiarini, Philip Pouncey per gli Uffizi: Disegni italiani di tre secoli, catalogo della mostra, exh. cat. (Florence, Italy, 1993), pp. 31-32 as Boccaccio Boccaccino
  • Alessandro Ballarin, Dosso Dossi: La pittura a Ferrara negli anni ducato di Alfonso I, 2 vols., Cittadella (Padua, Italy, 1994 - 1995), vol. 1, no. 29, p. 201, fig. VI in color and vol. 2, fig. 48 as Boccaccino
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")

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