1932.260: Nude Man

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.260

People

Copy after Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)

Title

Nude Man

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298940

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

24 x 16.6 cm (9 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 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

1932.260

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 39, pp. 34-35, as copy after Pollaiuolo
• Sergio Ortolani, Il Pollaiuolo, Ulrico Hoepli-Editore (Milan, Italy, 1948), p. 170, no. 3 under "copie: nudi" as copy after Pollaiuolo and p. 122
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 25, p. 20, as copy after, 16th century
• Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Disegni umbri: Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1984), p.102
• Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, exh. cat., National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (London, England, 1999), under cat. no. 51, p. 248
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella con quattro stelle rosse")
• Shelley Langdale, Battle of the Nudes. Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 2002), p. 59 (n. 44)

Exhibition History

• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2016 - 01/31/2017

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