G5792: Venus Offered Riches from the Sea
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G5792
- People
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Unidentified Artist
- Title
- Venus Offered Riches from the Sea
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- Italian?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/30650
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red chalk, squared in black chalk, on cream antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.5 x 46 cm (13 9/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: on mount, graphite: Original - Bolognese School
- inscription: verso of mount, lower left, brown ink: B.P.L. No. 12
- inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Pietro da Cortona
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, William Gray, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G5792
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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