1926.33.37: Fac-simile of the Central Portion of the Picture Called "The Calumny of Apelles," by Sandro Botticelli, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.37

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
After Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro Filipepi), Italian (Florence, Italy 1444/45 - 1510 Florence, Italy)

Title

Fac-simile of the Central Portion of the Picture Called "The Calumny of Apelles," by Sandro Botticelli, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1877

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306371

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache with gold paint over graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

37.1 x 53.2 cm (14 5/8 x 20 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.r., graphite: 4

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.33.37

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), p. 8, cat. 2
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 37, fig. 11
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 248, cat. 232

Exhibition History

• Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878

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