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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
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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")

Verification Level

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