1932.371: Head of a Peasant Woman

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

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. 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• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, checklist, Unpublished (1954), cat.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

• An Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/01/1954 - 04/30/1954
• Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016

Subjects and Contexts

• Dutch, Flemish, & Netherlandish Drawings

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