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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.125
People
Manner of Jacopo del Sellaio, Italian (Florence, Italy 1441 - 1493 Florence, Italy)
Title
Minerva
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298963

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, laid down
Dimensions
approximate dimensions of cut out figure: 20 x 14 cm (7 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
22.2 x 1.6 cm (8 3/4 x 5/8 in.)

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
1932.125
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
drawing is cut out around figure, laid down to rectangular sheet

Publication History

  • Arthur McComb, "The Life and Works of Francesco di Giorgio", Art Studies: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern (1924), II, pp. 1-32, fig. 32
  • Selwyn Brinton, Francesco di Giorgio Martini of Siena, painter, sculptor, engineer, civil and military architect (1439-1502), Besant & Co. (London, 1934), p. 114
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1863C , p. 260, as School of Piero di Cosimo
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 40, p. 35; vol. 2, repr. fig. 35
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 26, p. 20 as Sellaio (?)
  • 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")

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

Verification Level

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