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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
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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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