1926.42.1: Apostles Watching the Ascension of Christ

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.42.1

People

Andrea Mantegna, Italian (Isola di Carturo, Italy 1431 - 1506 Mantua, Italy)

Title

Apostles Watching the Ascension of Christ

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Mantua

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298959

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash, white gouache on gray-green prepared dark cream antique laid paper, irregularly trimmed and mounted overall to blue laid paper

Dimensions

29 x 21.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., black ink: Mantegna
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/25/2002.
• collector's mark: u.l., black ink: L.s. 1171b (Luigi Grassi)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Erizzo-Moscardo(?). [Luigi Grassi, Florence, Italy (Lugt 1171b)], sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1926 (through the generosity of Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus in memory of her husband, Jesse Isidor Straus, Class of 1893

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.42.1

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Pope, "The New Fogg Art Museum--The Collection of Drawings", The Arts (July 1927), vol. XII, no. 1, pp. 25-28, ill. p. 27
• Arthur E. Popham, "Notes on Drawings: ? Andrea Mantegna", Old Master Drawings (March 1932), vol. VI, no. 24, p. 62, p. 62; repr. pl. 58, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 24, pp. 18-19; vol. 2, repr. fig. 25
• Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 45, n.p.
• Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 12
• Jean Cassou, "Ingres, Cezanne, Le Fresnaye, Picasso: On the Demarche of the Creative Thought", Gazette des Beaux-Arts (April 1948), VI series, vol. XXXVI, pp. 239-250, repr. fig. 4, p. 242
• Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Drawing, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1950), repr. no. 13, n.p.
• John Coolidge, ed., Picture Book: Survey of the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1951), vol. 1, cat. no. 9, n.p.
• Erika Tietze-Conrat, Mantegna: Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Phaidon (London, England, 1955), pp. 203 and 205
• Helen Gardner, Art Through the Ages, ed. Sumner McK. Crosby, Harcourt, Brace and Co. (New York, NY, 1959), p. 13, repr. fig. 0-12
• Giovanni Paccagnini and Amalia Mezzetti, Andrea Mantegna, exh. cat., Neri Pozza Editore (Venice, Italy, 1961), under cat. no. 121, p. 164, as Mantegna
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 69, n.p., repr. color
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 4, n.p., repr.
• Maria Bellonci and Niny Garavaglia, L'opera completa del Mantegna, Rizzoli (Milan, 1967), under cat. no. 34A, p. 97; repr. same page
• 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. 1, n.p., pl. 1, repr. (detail used as cover)
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), p. 7; cat. no. 17, p. 19
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 247, pp. 214-215, repr. color
• Ronald Lightbown, Mantegna: With a Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1986), repr. pl. 213, n.p.; under cat. no 16, p. 413; cat. no. 182, p. 483
• 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. 7, n.p., and pp. 10, 18, and 24, repr. color, and under cat. no. 41...
• Suzanne Boorsch and Keith Christiansen, Andrea Mantegna, exh. cat., ed. Jane Martineau, Royal Academy of Arts / Metropolitan Museum of Art (Milan, Italy, 1992), cat. no. 20, pp. 167-168 and p. 405, repr. color pl. 20, as after Mantegna
• Robert Munman, "Two Drawings by Andrea Mantegna: A Simili/Modelli Problem Reconsidered", Momus: rivista di studi umanisitici (1996), vol. V-VI, pp. 5-25, pp. 5-25, repr. p. 6, fig. 1, as Andrea Mantegna
• Michael Wiemers, Bildform und Werkgenese: Studien zur zeichnerischen Bildvorbereitung in der italienischen Malerei zwischen 1450 und 1490, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Munich, Germany, 1996), pp. 173, 175-76, repr. p. 176, fig. 158, as Mantegna
• Penley Knipe, "Grounds on Paper: An Examination of Eight Early Drawings" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1998), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
• Alberta de Nicolò Salmazo, Andrea Mantegna, Rizzoli (Milan, 2004), repr. fig. 3, p. 263

Exhibition History

• Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• 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
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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