1932.256: Group of Three Standing and One Crouching Nude Figures; verso: Two Standing Nude Figures

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.256

People

Copy after Raphael, Italian (Urbino, Italy 1483 - 1520 Rome, Italy)

Title

Group of Three Standing and One Crouching Nude Figures; verso: Two Standing Nude Figures

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298955

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper toned overall with brown wash, partial framing lines in black ink; verso: leadpoint

Dimensions

24.6 × 16.8 cm (9 11/16 × 6 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 5/18/2004.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Giovanni Morelli (Lugt 1902), bequest; to Gustavo Frizzoni, bequest; to 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

1932.256

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. XVIII
• Osvald Sirén, Dessins et tableaux de la renaissance italienne dans les collections de Suède, H.W. Tullberg (Stockholm, 1902), p. 56
• Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), fig. 63
• Oskar Fischel, Raphaels Zeichnungen, G. Grote (Berlin, 1919), p. 116, no. 90
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 158, p. 90; vol. 2, repr. fig. 88, as copy after Raphael
• Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 7, pp. 66 and 68-69, and cat. no. 11, p. 256, and n. 53, p. 30, repr...
• Per Bjurström and Börje Magnusson, Italian Drawings: Umbria, Rome, Naples, National Museum Stockholm (Stockholm, 1998), under cat. no. 553, n.p.
• 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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