Standing Nude Boy | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1932.236
People: Baldassare Franceschini, called Volterrano, Italian (Volterra, Italy 1611 - 1690 Florence, Italy)
Title: Standing Nude Boy
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298739

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

24.3 × 13.7 cm (9 9/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: top, ink: Volterrano

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year: 1932
Object Number: 1932.236
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. 303
Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con due stelle rosse")
Thomas McGrath, "Florentine Baroque Drawings at the Fogg Museum of Art", Apollo (January 2004), CLIX, no. 503, pp. 14-20, p. 14
Thomas McGrath, "Preparatory Drawings by Volterrano at the Fogg Art Museum", Master Drawings (Winter 2005), XLIII, no. 4, pp. 500-507, pp. 501, 505, fig. 5
Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 26, 2011), under cat. no. 541

Verification Level

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