1936.117: Head of a Saint

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.117

People

Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Italian (Verona, Italy 1480 - 1555 Verona, Italy)
Previously attributed to Liberale da Verona, Italian (Verona, Italy c. 1445-c. 1526 Verona, Italy)

Title

Head of a Saint

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298682

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk, incised with stylus, with some retouching, on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

23.2 x 16 cm (9 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Watermark was visible when examined by Craigen Bowen. Beta required.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lord Dalhousie. Henry Oppenheimer, London, sold; [Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 111 (as Liberale da Verona)] to; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.]. Anonymous gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.117

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1930), no. 643, p. 306
• Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, ed., A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1930, exh. cat. (London, 1931), cat. no. 781 (as Liberale da Verona)
• Arthur E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1930, Oxford University Press (NY) (London, England, 1931), cat. no. 179, p. 50; pl. CLIV (as Liberale da Verona)
• James Byam Shaw, "Notes on Drawings: Liberale da Verona", Old Master Drawings (March 1932), no. 24, pp. 62-64, p. 63 under Liberale da Verona
• Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 111
• Agnes Mongan, "A Gift of Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1937), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 22-34, pp. 29-30; repr. fig. 6, p. 28 as Liberale da Verona
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 117, p. 72; vol. 2, repr. fig. 73, as Liberale da Verona
• Rodolfo Pallucchini, "Studi sui disegni veneti", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte (1950), III, 1949, pp. 172-174, p. 173
• Carlo Del Bravo, "Liberale da Verona" (1959), Unpublished, pp. 236, 289-290
• Acquisitions 1961: Being a Presentation of Twelve Renaissance Paintings distributed by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Study Collection, George Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville, 1961), p. 15
• Carlo Del Bravo, Liberale da Verona, Edizioni d'Arte Il Fiorino (Florence, 1967), pp. 50, CXLVI
• Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 130
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 30; repr. fig. 19
• Sergio Marinelli, "Disegni e dipinti: nel Cinquecento veronese", Verona Illustrata (2006), no. 19, pp 109-113, pp. 110-111, pl. 75
• Diana Gisolfi, Paolo Veronese and the Practice of Painting in Late Renaissance Venice, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2017), pp. 23, 28, fig. 32

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1930 - 03/08/1930

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