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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.282
People
School of Andrea Mantegna, Italian (Isola di Carturo, Italy 1431 - 1506 Mantua, Italy)
Title
Antique Sacrifice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Mantua
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298968

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink with touches of black chalk on dark cream antique laid paper, with infill at top right, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
15.6 × 18 cm (6 1/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., brown ink: Mantegna copiato dal antico
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/25/2002.

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
1932.282
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gustavo Frizzoni, "Tre opere dall'antica scuola ferrarese", Archivio storico dell'arte (1894), VII, pp. 177-184, pp. 177-184, repr.
  • Josef Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Gerlach & Schenk (Vienna, 1896-1908), vol. IX, no. 1077
  • Adolfo Venturi, "Arte ferrarese del Rinascimento", L' Arte (1925), XXVIII, no. 3, p. 95, repr.
  • Detlev Freiherr von Hadeln, Venezianische Zeichnungen des Quattrocento, Paul Cassirer Gallery (Berlin, Germany, 1925), pp. 16, 35 and 47, repr. pl. 67 as Giovanni Bellini
  • Kenneth Clark, "Italian Drawings at Burlington House", The Burlington Magazine (April 1930), LVI, no.325, pp. 174-177, 180, 183, 187, p. 187
  • Luitpold Dussler, Giovanni Bellini, Prestel Verlag (Frankfurt am Main, 1935), p. 160
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 25, pp. 19-20; vol. 2, repr. fig. 37 as School of Mantegna
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 18, p. 19
  • 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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