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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.130
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Two Men Seated in Dante Chairs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298964

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk and white gouache on cream antique paper prepared with a brown wash laid down overall to cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
19.1 × 24.8 cm (7 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of mount, bottom center, graphite: 8 [underlined]
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, graphite: 91
  • inscription: verso of mount, u.l., brown ink and graphite: [Two marks that look like paraphs?]
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/14/2002

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
1932.130
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 20, pp. 15-16; vol. 2, repr. fig. 15, as Italian 15th century
  • Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, p. 527, note 12 (as Lombard, c. 1500)
  • Anna Forlani Tempesti, The Robert Lehman Collection V: Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth Century Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Princeton University Press (New York, NY and Princeton, NJ, 1991), under cat. no. 66, p. 188
  • Charles M. Rosenberg, The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997), p. 89, fig. 30
  • 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")
  • Gabriele Fattorini, "Giovan Battista Giraldi Cinthio e il Ciclo Dinastico Estense della 'Delizia' di Copparo", Studi giraldiani (2023), IX, pp. 83-152, pp. 131-132, fig. 19

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