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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.371
People
Unidentified Artist
Manner of Hieronymus Bosch, Netherlandish (c. 1450 - 1516 's-Hertogenbosch, Belgium)
Title
Head of a Peasant Woman
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Netherlandish
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298653

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown-gray ink on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk lines rubbed with black chalk throughout
Dimensions
arched at top: 6.4 x 5.7 cm (2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in.)
mount: 8.4 x 6.9 cm (3 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: lower right, blue ink, stamp: L. 1902 (Giovanni Morelli)
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 1/b [? or 1/6]
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: Pieter Breughel
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper right, graphite: 58
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giovanni Morelli, Milan (L. 1902 with his mark). 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
1932.371
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. 461, p. 238, as Manner of Brueghel
  • An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat. no. 7, p. 2 (as Manner of Pieter Brueghel)
  • Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 16, p. 257, repr. fig. 16
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella C.L.")
  • Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: Die Zeichnungen, Werkstat und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts : catalogue raisonné , Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium, 2012), cat. no. 59, pp. 418-419

Exhibition History

Subjects and Contexts

  • Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

Verification Level

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