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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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