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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.272
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Mythological Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298967

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, with touches of black chalk and black ink, on dark cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
22.1 × 17.3 cm (8 11/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/14/2002
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: ALExand ueroes
  • inscription: verso, bottom center, brown ink: Mantegna

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
1932.272
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. 47, p. 39; vol. 2, repr. fig. 42 as Venetian 15th century
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 32, p. 21
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")

Exhibition History

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

Verification Level

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