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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.345
People
Andrea Michieli, Italian (Vicenza, Italy c. 1542 - c. 1617 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Reception of Henry III at Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298649

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream wove paper decorated mount
Dimensions
irregular: 28.5 x 28.5 cm (11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: bottom center of mount, brown ink, by hand: L. 1419
  • inscription: bottom center of mount, brown ink, by hand: Tad: Zuccaro
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, brown ink, by hand: The Reception of Henry III of France, in his Passage from y Crown of / Poland to his own Hereditary Kingdom, by the Doge of Venice 1574. / This was 10 years before the Death of Tintoretto. The King was 23 yr old / J. B. No: 908 / 11 1/4 Diameter
  • watermark: siren in a circle(?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Barnard, London (Lugt 1419). 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
1932.345
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. 211, pp. 112-113; vol. 2, repr. fig. 108
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 51, repr. fig. 34
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A")
  • W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), pp. 200 and 235 (n. 332), repr. p. 201, fig. 105

Exhibition History

  • Mannerism, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont, 12/05/1963 - 12/31/1963

Verification Level

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