1932.124: A Seated Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.124

People

Maso Finiguerra, Italian (Florence, Italy 1426 - 1464 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Andrea del Sarto, Italian (Florence, Italy 1486 - 1530 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Filippino Lippi, Italian (Prato, Italy 1457 - 1504 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist

Title

A Seated Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298896

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash and black chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, the drawing then hinged along the left edge only onto a mount

Dimensions

irregular: 14.6 x 11 cm (5 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso of backing sheet, l.r., graphite: Coll. Feuchere
• inscription: verso of backing sheet, l.r., graphite: Coll. E. Diaz
• inscription: verso of backing sheet, l.r., graphite: Andrea del Sarto
• collector's mark: l.l., blue ink: Lugt 841 [Unknown collector. Possibly Emile Diaz]
• inscription: recto of mount, top edge behind drawing, graphite, French: Coll.
  Vente Drouot 26/1/09 [?] 40
• inscription: recto of mount, l.r. behind drawing, graphite: 1932.124
• inscription: verso of mount, u.r., graphite: Vte [?] 19 Jan. 1909/
  110 [superscript x]
  [There are various other figures etc. scribbled across the verso of the mount]
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/12/2002

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Paris [sale, Paris, March 8-10, 1853]. Emile Diaz, Paris (Lugt 841). [Hotel Drouot, Paris, January 20, 1909, possibly lot 40 (indecipherable inscription from mount) as Andrea del Sarto]. 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

1932.124

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• [Untitled Sale Catalogue], auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, 1909), as Andrea del Sarto
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1913A, p. 268, as School of Antonio Pollaiuolo
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 13, pp. 11-12; vol. 2, repr. fig. 14 as Florentine School...
• Sergio Ortolani, Il Pollaiuolo, Ulrico Hoepli-Editore (Milan, Italy, 1948), no. 18 under "copie: di costume," p. 18 as copy after Antonio Pollaiuolo
• Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, under no. 620, p. 616, repr. p. 604, fig. 918 as Circle of Finiguerra
• Richard Joseph Kubiak, "Maso Finiguerra" (Thesis, University of Virginia, 1974), Unpublished, p. 184
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 8, p. 18
• Lorenza Melli, Maso Finiguerra: I disegni, Edifir-Edizioni (Florence, Italy, 1995), p. 52 and no. 155, repr. fig. 171
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con una stella nera")

Exhibition History

• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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