1932.137: Study of a Male Head (Saint Joseph?)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.137

People

Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)

Title

Study of a Male Head (Saint Joseph?)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th-16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298921

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on tan antique laid paper

Dimensions

23 x 17.4 cm (9 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Spread eagle encircled (Briquet 203)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

E.R. Lamponi-Leopardi, Florence and Turin. Giovanni Morelli, bequest; to Gustavo Frizzoni, 1891, sold; to 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

1932.137

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Raccolta di disegni originali dei piu celebri artisti tratti dalla scelta collezione del senatore Giovanni Morelli in Milano (Venice, Italy, 1882)
• Gustavo Frizzoni, Collezione di quaranta disegni scelti dalla raccolta del senatore Giovanni Morelli, U. Hoepli (Milan, Italy, 1886), n.p., repr. pl. 4, n.p.
• Gustave Gruyer, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta et Mariotto Albertinelli, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1886), p. 105
• Fritz Knapp, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schüle von San Marco, Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp (Halle, Germany, 1903), p. 297
• Hans von der Gabelentz, Fra Bartolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance, Karl W. Hiersemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1922), cat. no. 250, p. 112
• "Two Unpublished Loeser Drawings", The Connoisseur (August 1933), vol. XCII, no. 384, p. 140, repr. no. 2
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. 2, cat. no. 212D, p. 24; vol. 3, n.p., repr. fig. 451
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 59, pp. 48-49; vol. 2, repr. fig. 49
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 3
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), cat. no. 24, p. 48; repr. p. 49
• Arthur E. Popham, "Drawings in the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (June 1948), vol. XC, no. 543, p. 179
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 11, pp. 34-35, and pp. 7-8, repr.
• Mauro Natale, Museo Poldi Pezzoli: Dipinti (Milan, Italy, 1982), p. 158
• Chris Fischer, Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola, exh. cat., Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, Italy, 1986), p. 68
• Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 3, pp. 56-57, and cat. no. 3, p. 254, repr. color (also repr. fig. 3,..
• 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. 19, n.p., and pp. 26, 27, 28, 30, 32 and 71, repr. color
• Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's (New York, NY, January 13, 1989 - January 14, 1989), under lot 52
• Chris Fischer, Review of "I disegni della collezione Morelli", The Burlington Magazine (January 1990), vol. CXXXII, no. 1042, pp. 42-43, pp. 42 and n. 2, p. 43
• Giulio Bora, Giovanni Morelli: Collezionista di disegni: la donazione al Castello Sforzesco, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1994), cat. no. II.1, p. 102, repr. p. 270 (color)
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")
• Serena Padovani, "Il tondo Visconti Venosta: un capolavoro della prima maturità di Fra' Bartolomeo", Museo Poldi Pezzoli / Sisley Italia (Milan, 2002), pp. 9-10, repr. fig. 2, p. 10

Exhibition History

• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947

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