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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.153
People
Benedetto Caliari, Italian (Verona, Italy 1538 - 1598 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Birth of the Virgin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312190

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown-gray ink, gray wash, white gouache over black chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
19 x 53.9 cm (7 1/2 x 21 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower right edge, brown ink
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: nella scuola de Mercanti di Benedetto Calliari fratello de Paolo Ver-se-.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. Sold in Lyon, c. 1919; to private collector; his great nephew, sold [Christie’s, Monaco, July 2, 1993, lot 23, repr.]; to Vermeer Associates] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994

Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1993-94.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.153
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dessins de Maître Anciens, auct. cat., Christie's, Monaco (Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1993-July 1993), lot no. 23 and fig. 1, p. 37; also repr. no. 23, n.p.
  • W.R. Rearick, "More Veronese Drawings from the Sagredo Collection", Master Drawings (Summer 1995), vol. XXXIII, no. 2, pp. 132-143, pp. 133, 135; fig. 1, p. 133
  • W.R. Rearick, Il disegno veneziano del Cinquecento, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2001), pp. 179 and 230 (n. 270), repr. p. 179, fig. 92
  • Virginia Brilliant and Frederick Ilchman, ed., Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, 2012), p. 267, cat. no. 25, pp. 146, 207, repr. p. 146

Exhibition History

  • Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 12/07/2012 - 04/14/2013

Verification Level

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