1932.275: Funeral Procession of the Virgin

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.275

People

Jacopo Bellini, Italian (Venice, Italy 1400 - 1471 Venice, Italy)

Title

Funeral Procession of the Virgin

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298988

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and black chalk on two sheets of dark cream antique laid paper, each sheet laid down on multi-laminate antique laid paper

Dimensions

left section: 9.8 x 20.4 cm (3 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
right section: 21 x 10 cm (8 1/4 x 3 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso of the white card to which the vertical drawing is laid down, u.l., graphite: [?]/ gold/ wash
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/12/2002

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

1932.275

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan, "Jacopo Bellini", Old Master Drawings (September 1938), vol. XIII, no. 50, pp. 24-25, pp. 24-25; repr. pl. 23, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 4, pp. 7-8; vol. 2, repr. fig. 5
• Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH, 1940), under "Drawings," n.p.; cat. no. 73, n.p.
• Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1944), no. 358, p. 101; under pl. VI, p. 110; repr. as pl. IV, n.p.
• Marcel Roethlisberger, "Studi su Jacopo Bellini", Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte (1958-1959), vol. 2, pp. 41-89, p. 62
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 83, n.p.; repr. color, n.p.
• Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 18; repr. color, pl. 23, p. 55
• Carol Herselle Krinsky, "Representations of the Temple of Jerusalem before 1500", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, The Warburg Institute (1970), Vol. 33, pp. 1-19, p. 16, under note 61
• Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier, "The 'Sketchbooks' of Jacopo Bellini Reconsidered", Paragone (1974), vol. XXV, no. 297, pp. 24-41, p. 25; fn. 7, p. 35; repr. pl. 2, n.p.
• Barbara Knowles Debs, Review: "Venetian Drawings from American Collections", The Print Collector's Newsletter (November - December 1974), Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 111-113, pp. 111-112
• Terisio Pignatti, Venetian Drawings from American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1974), cat. no. 4, p. 7; repr. no. 4, n.p.
• H. Diane Russell, "Venetian Drawings", Master Drawings (Autumn 1976), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 309-312, p. 310
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 8; text and repr., cat. no. 4, pp. 20-21
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 4, p. 17
• Howard Collins, "The Cyclopean Vision of Jacopo Bellini", Pantheon (October 1982-December 1982), vol. XL, no. IV, pp. 300-304, p. 302
• Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, Mendelowitz's Guide to Drawing, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY, 1982)
• Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), text and repr., cat. no. 248, p. 215
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 6, n.p., and pp. 17, 18, 22 and 24, repr. color
• Colin T. Eisler, The Genius of Jacopo Bellini: The Complete Paintings and Drawings, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1989), pp. 103, 367, 374; repr. pl. 233, p. 374
• Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Review of "The Genius of Jacopo Bellini" by Colin Eisler, The Print Collector's Newsletter (September 1990 - October 1990), vol. XXI, no. 4, pp. 154-156, p. 155
• Giulia Fusconi and Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Drawing: The Great Collectors, ed. Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino/Amilcare Pizzi Editore (Turin, Italy, 1992), repr. color, fig. 276, p. 238
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")
• Stephan Wolohojian, Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 14, n.p.
• W.R. Rearick, "The Study of Venetian Drawings Today", Master Drawings (2004), vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 299-301, p. 299 as Giovanni Bellini

Exhibition History

• Four Centuries of Venetian Painting, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 03/01/1940 - 03/31/1940
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
• Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/17/2001 - 07/23/2001

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