- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1932.130
- People
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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
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- 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
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- 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
- Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
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
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")
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