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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1918.30
People
Follower of Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)
Title
Saint John Preaching in the Wilderness
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299222

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash over black chalk with white and blue gouache and pastel on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to thin wove paper
Dimensions
53.7 × 39.5 cm (21 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: seven-petaled flower (Mongan-Sachs W. 15)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William A. White, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1918

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White
Accession Year
1918
Object Number
1918.30
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. 210, p. 112
  • W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), p. 234 (n.314) as Benedetto Caliari

Verification Level

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