1916.690: Angel, after Desiderio da Settignano
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1916.690
- People
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Joseph Lindon Smith, American (Pawtucket, RI 1863 - 1950 Dublin, NH)
After Desiderio da Settignano, Italian (Settignano, Italy 1428 - 1464 Florence, Italy)
- Title
- Angel, after Desiderio da Settignano
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Desiderio Angel, 1889
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1889
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/306010
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor and white gouache on heavy off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 39.4 x 28.2 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: brown watercolor, u.l.: Joseph Linden Smith / Florence 1889
- inscription: left edge, graphite: 16 x 21 5/8
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Gift (?) of the artist to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1916
- Object Number
- 1916.690
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This is copied from the Marsuppini Monument at Santa Croce, Florence. The original was made c. 1453 - 1455. Verso shows a slight sketch of three Renaissance men that appear to be copied from another work.
Verification Level
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