1932.263: The Vision of Saint Francis

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.263

People

Pietro Faccini, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1562 - 1602 Bologna, Italy)

Title

The Vision of Saint Francis

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298941

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over red chalk, squared in graphite for transfer, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

31.8 x 24.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: bottom: Pietro Facini
• inscription: lower right: 39

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Peter Lely (Lugt 2092). 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

1932.263

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. I, cat. no. 84, p. 62, vol. II, fig. 68, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 464-469, p. 468, fig. 7, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 36, n.p., pl. 36, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 28, pp. 68-69, repr.
• Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
• Diane DeGrazia Bohlin and Eugenio Riccomini, Correggio and His Legacy: Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1984), cat. no. 132, pp. 386-88, repr.
• 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. 53, pp. 54, 57, repr.
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 (as "Cartella con quattro stelle rosse")

Exhibition History

• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• Correggio and His Legacy: Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/11/1984 - 05/13/1984; Galleria Nazionale di Parma, Parma, 06/03/1984 - 07/15/1984

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