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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.224
People
Agostino Melissi, Italian, Florentine (Florence 1616 - 1683 Florence)
Previously attributed to Carlo Dolci, Italian (Florence, Italy 1616 - 1686 Florence, Italy)
Title
Study for the Figure of Christ
Other Titles
Former Title: Studies of Hands and Legs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298694

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black, red, and white chalk on buff antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.2 x 29.3 cm (8 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: five six-pointe stars in a circle (Briquet 6098, of smaller format)
  • inscription: verso, graphite, in an 18th-century hand: di Carlin Dolci

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1932.224
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), no. 248
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con una stella rossa")
  • Caravaggesque Italian Painters: Painters of Reality, auct. cat., Galerie G. Sarti (Paris, 2013), p. 150, repr. p. 151 as fig. 5

Verification Level

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