1932.254: Minerva (?); verso: Profile Portrait Study of a Young Priest Wearing a Biretta and a Kneeling Cleric

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.254

People

Giuseppe Cesari (called Cavaliere d'Arpino), Italian (Arpino, Italy 1568 - 1640 Rome, Italy)

Title

Minerva (?); verso: Profile Portrait Study of a Young Priest Wearing a Biretta and a Kneeling Cleric

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th-17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lazio

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298947

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and brown ink

Dimensions

21.9 × 15.7 cm (8 5/8 × 6 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, lower right, ink: Cav d'Arpino
• watermark: [fragmentary]

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

1932.254

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), no. 243, fig. 126
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con quattro stelle rosse")

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