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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.135
People
Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian (Caravaggio, near Bergamo, Italy c. 1499 - 1543 Messina, Italy)
Title
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312281

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan antique laid paper
Dimensions
23.2 × 19.2 cm (9 1/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: Coll: Baron Vivant-Denon/ Lugt779 R.S. Holford Lugt 2243; lower left: Parmegiano/ Polidoro AEP.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon (Lugt 779). Robert S. Holford (Lugt 2243). Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Squire. [Sotheby's, New York, 1979, lot 20, repr.] sold; to Vermeer Associates, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
mounted overall onto tan antique laid paper

Publication History

  • Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle, Drawings from New York Collections: The Italian Renaissance, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1965), Vol. I, p. 51, under no. 73
  • Alessandro Marabottini, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, Italy, 1969), p. 339, under no. 166
  • Lanfranco Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio, Monumenta Bergomensia (Bergamo, Italy, 1978), p. 97, no. 7, repr.
  • John A. Gere, Review of "Lanfranco Ravelli, Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio i disegni di Polidoro: Copie da Polidoro", Master Drawings (1985 - 1986), vol. 23-24, p. 68
  • Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY, 1988), no. 88, repr.
  • Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: fra Napoli e Messina, Arnoldo Mondadori (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 101
  • Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: l'opera completa, Electa Napoli (Naples, Italy, 2001), cat. no. D59, fig. 362, pp. 324, 335, 342, 369, 472, 480, 482, 484, 489

Exhibition History

  • Drawings by Raphael and his Circle from British and North American Collections, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 10/09/1987 - 01/03/1988
  • Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 10/20/1999 - 01/17/2000

Verification Level

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