1932.131: Two Studies for a Saint Joseph

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.131

People

Piero di Cosimo, Italian (Florence (?), Italy c. 1462 - 1522 Florence(?), Italy)
Previously attributed to School of Lorenzo di Credi, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1456 - 1536 Florence, Italy)

Title

Two Studies for a 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/298937

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

8.5 × 11.5 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: l.l. corner, blue ink: L. 1902 [only partially stamped]
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Giovanni Morelli, Milan (Lugt 1902). 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

1932.131

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), cat. no. 60, n.p.; repr. fig. 60, n.p. as Maniera di Lorenzo di Credi
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. 2, cat. no. 1849C, p. 257, as Piero di Cosimo; vol. 3, n.p., repr. fig. 421
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 6, pp. 8-9, as School of Lorenzo di Credi
• Robert Langton Douglas, Piero di Cosimo, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1946), p. 86 (see also f.n. 8, same page)
• Mina Bacci, Piero di Cosimo, Bramante (Milan, Italy, 1966), p. 112
• Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 5, pp. 62-63, and cat. no. 1, p. 254, and n. 53, p. 30, repr. color...
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 8 and 22, repr. p. 16, fig. 6
• Chris Fischer, Review of "I disegni della collezione Morelli", The Burlington Magazine (January 1990), vol. CXXXII, no. 1042, pp. 42-43, p. 42
• Giulio Bora, Giovanni Morelli: Collezionista di disegni: la donazione al Castello Sforzesco, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1994), cat. no. II.3, p. 103, repr. color, p. 273 (color)
• 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")

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