1932.216: Annunciation; verso: Unidentified Study

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.216

People

Andrea Boscoli, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1560 - c. 1607 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to School of Giovanni Battista di Jacopo called Rosso Fiorentino, Italian (Florence, Italy 1494 - 1540 Fontainebleau, France)

Title

Annunciation; verso: Unidentified Study

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298719

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

36 × 28.8 cm (14 3/16 × 11 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

1932.216

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 2458G, p. 317, as School of Rosso Fiorentino
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 174, p. 94 as School of Il Rosso
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 25, pp. 62-62, and p. 9, repr. (recto)
• Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), cat. no. 8, p. 33, and p. 26, repr. fig. 8 Recto
• Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 46, n.p., and p. 51, repr. (recto) color
• Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., University of Washington Press and Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 7, pp. 68-69, repr. recto
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 36 under "Red chalk"
• 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
• William A. Berry, Drawing the Human Form: Methods, Sources, Concepts, third edition, 2024, pp. 113, 116, repr. as fig. 4-41

Exhibition History

• The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979
• From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991 - 12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992 - 03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992 - 05/24/1992

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