1932.132: Saint Sebastian

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.132

People

School of Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)

Title

Saint Sebastian

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298954

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash, strengthened with black ink, on cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to antique laid paper, itself laid down overall to twentieth-century white card

Dimensions

23.2 × 9.2 cm (9 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.
• inscription: lower right, ink, in sixteenth-century(?) hand: polaiolo
• collector's mark: Giovanni Morelli (Lugt 1902)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Giovanni Morelli, Milan and Bergamo (Lugt 1902). 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

1932.132

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gustavo Frizzoni, Collezione di quaranta disegni scelti dalla raccolta del senatore Giovanni Morelli, U. Hoepli (Milan, Italy, 1886), pl. II
• Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), fig. 59
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1898D, p. 265
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 38, p. 34; vol. 2, repr. fig. 34
• Attilio Sabatini, Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1944), p. 89 as after Antonio
• Sergio Ortolani, Il Pollaiuolo, Ulrico Hoepli-Editore (Milan, Italy, 1948), p. 169, no. 3 under "attribuiti" as attributed to Pollaiuolo and p. 213
• Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 2, pp. 54-55, and cat. no. 2, p. 254, and n. 53, p. 30, repr. 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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