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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.214
People
Giovanni da San Giovanni (Giovanni Mannozzi), Italian (1592 - 1636)
Title
Study for Senator Girolomo Novelli Giving Alms
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298717

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black, red and white chalk on faded blue antique laid paper
Dimensions
40.7 × 25.7 cm (16 × 10 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, in seventeenth-century hand: Goni Manozzi ditto Giov da S. Giovanni
  • watermark: shield with letter F inside and an oblong shape above (Mongan-Sachs W. 20)

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
1932.214
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. 256, pp. 133-134; vol. 2, repr. fig. 131
  • Joan Nissman and Howard Hibbard, Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1969), cat. no. 22, pp. 31-32
  • 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")
  • Thomas McGrath, "Florentine Baroque Drawings at the Fogg Museum of Art", Apollo (January 2004), CLIX, no. 503, pp. 14-20, p. 14

Exhibition History

  • Florentine Baroque Art from American Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 04/16/1969 - 06/15/1969

Verification Level

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