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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.164
People
Perino del Vaga, Italian (Florence, Italy 1501 - 1547 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Title
Madonna and Child appearing to a Woman in Bed and a Woman Kneeling
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298977

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache on cream antique laid paper stumped overall with black chalk, pricked in part with probable later re-strengthening of highlights in white gouache
Dimensions
25.3 × 37.8 cm (9 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: flowers in a circle surmounted by a star (Briquet 6684)
  • inscription: top [in Jonathan Richardson, Sr.'s hand]: Pierin del Vago. 2

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (Lugt 2231). Charles A. Loeser, Florence, 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
1932.164
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. 94, p. 65, as Italian 16th Century
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 15, n.p., pl. 15, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 17, p. 46; repr. color, p. 47
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 32 and 36, repr. fig. 15
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 119 ("Cartella con tre stelle nere")

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Verification Level

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