1932.265: Copy after Perino del Vaga's Compositional Study for "The Death of the 10,000 Martyrs"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.265

People

Giorgio Vasari, Italian (Arezzo, Italy 1511 - 1574 Florence, Italy)
After Perino del Vaga, Italian (Florence, Italy 1501 - 1547 Rome, Italy)

Title

Copy after Perino del Vaga's Compositional Study for "The Death of the 10,000 Martyrs"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298986

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash and white gouache on paper prepared with gray-brown wash, drum-mounted to cream wove paper

Dimensions

36.9 x 34.4 cm (14 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: mount, graphite: Huis le Merwede[?] près Dordrecht

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

1932.265

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 191, pp. 101-102; vol. 2, repr. fig. 101 as Perino del Vaga
• University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, The Age of Vasari, exh. cat. (Notre Dame, Indiana, 1970), p. 83 as D31
• Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI, 1973), cat. no. 69, repr.
• Maia W. Gahtan and Philip Jacks, Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court; An Exhibition to Accompany the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1994), cat. no. 17, p. 26, and p. 24
• Dessins italiens du musée Condé à Chantilly: II. Raphaël et son cercle, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1997), under no. 44, p. 134
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella con quattro stelle rosse")
• David Franklin, ed., Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada/Yale University Press (Ottawa, 2005), p. 198, fig. 63.1
• Gert-Rudolph Flick, Masters and Pupils: The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet 1480-1880, Hogarth Arts/Paul Holberton Publishing (London, 2008)
• David Young Kim, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven/London, 2014), p. 156, fig. 5.22
• Florian Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, 2015), cat. no. 21, p. 159, repr.

Exhibition History

• Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 02/14/1954 - 03/28/1954
• The Age of Vasari, Notre Dame Art Gallery, 02/22/1970 - 03/31/1970; University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton, 04/12/1970 - 05/10/1970
• Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/22/1973 - 03/25/1973
• Vasari's Florence: Artists and Literati at the Medicean Court: An Exhibition to Accompnay the International Symposium Organized by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 04/14/1994 - 05/15/1994
• Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018

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