1932.274: Sacrificial Scene

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.274

People

Bernardo Parentino, Italian (Parenzo, Italy c. 1450 - c. 1500 Vicenza, Italy)

Title

Sacrificial Scene

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298987

Location

Location

Level 2, Room 2220, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, Rococo and Neoclassicism in the Eighteenth Century

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Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

25.8 x 21.5 cm (10 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower left, later hand: Montagni

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Richard Cosway (Lugt 628). 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

1932.274

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. 26, p. 20, as School of Mantegna
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")
• Peter Windows, "An Important, Unpublished Drawing by Bernardo Parentino", Master Drawings (Autumn 2017), LV, no. 3, pp. 291-310, p. 302, repr. p. 303 as fig. 18

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/03/2025 - 07/21/2025

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