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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.348
People
Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian (Caravaggio, near Bergamo, Italy c. 1499 - 1543 Messina, Italy)
Previously attributed to Perino del Vaga, Italian (Florence, Italy 1501 - 1547 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Entombment
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298681

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
11.7 × 18.3 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rembrandt(?). Jan Baptist de Graaf, Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). 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
1932.348
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
mounted overall to laminated cream antique laid paper

Publication History

  • William R. Valentiner, "Erwiderung", Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst (1921), XXXII, pp. 172-174, p. 174, repr.
  • William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. II, repr. p. 200 (no. 627A)
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 193, pp. 102-103; vol. 2, repr. fig. 104 as Perino del Vaga
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 32, repr. fig. 13, as Polidoro da Caravaggio
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella R")
  • Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: l'opera completa, Electa Napoli (Naples, Italy, 2001), cat. no. D58, fig. 67, pp. 50, 63, 67, 472
  • Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Rembrandt, exh. cat., Edition Minerva and Albertina (Wolfratshausen, 2004), p. 308, repr.
  • Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J. M. Weber, Marjorie E. Wieseman, and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Late Works, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (London, 2014), pp. 84-86, fig. 37 on p. 85
  • Michiel C. Plomp, "Artist Collectors: Rembrandt and His Time", A Demand for Drawings: Five Centuries of Collectors and Collecting Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2018), pp. 45-56, pp. 48-49, repr. p. 48 as fig. 41
  • Holm Bevers, Georg Josef Dietz, and Antje Penz, Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, exh. cat., Sandstein Verlag (Berlin, 2018), pp. 254-256, repr. p. 256

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