1932.150: Head of a Child Turned Three-Quarters Left

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.150

People

Giovanni Antonio Sogliani, Italian (Florence, Italy 1492 - 1544 Florence, Italy)
Possibly attributable to Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)

Title

Head of a Child Turned Three-Quarters Left

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298904

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on brown antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.4 x 18 cm (7 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: brown ink, lower left: antonio da Correggio fe 1512[?]; lower right: WE. [L. 2617]; verso, brown ink, lower left (William Esdaile): Presented by Sr Thomas Lawrence 1829.; lower center: Fra Bartolomeo.; graphite, lower left: 20 218[?] / 1/2 O
  on old mount, brown ink, lower left (William Esdaile): Sr TL. 1829. His gift.; lower center: Fra: Bartolomeo; brown ink, lower right (same hand?): 15; graphite, lower right, in Dutch: hoog [height] 8d / breed [width] 7G Lax.ax

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Lawrence, London, gift; to William Esdaile, London, 1829 (Lugt 2617) [1]. Unidentified Collection, Dutch? [2]. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Notes
[1] See Esdaile's inscriptions on verso and old mount.
[2] The dimensions in Dutch on the old mount suggest that the drawing was once part of a Dutch collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.150

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, Oxford University Press (NY) (Oxford, England, 1908 -1909), no. 4, repr.
• Adolfo Venturi, "The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters. Part I-IV, 1905-10.", L'arte, Danese Gallery (Rome, Italy, September - October 1910), vol. XIII, no. V, pp. 393, p. 393, repr. opp. p. 393
• Hans von der Gabelentz, Fra Bartolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance, Karl W. Hiersemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1922), II, no. 249
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 2510G, p. 338, as Sogliani
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 58, p. 48, as Fra Bartolommeo
• Christian von Holst, "Florentiner Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Zeit von 1480 bis 1580", Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz (Florence, Italy, 1971), vol. XV, p. 35 (n. 67), fig. 45
• Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig, Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York, 1997), cat. no. 16, p. 96, and pp. 19, 30 and 36, repr. color, as Fra Bartolommeo
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2017 - 12/12/2017

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