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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.185
People
Pirro Ligorio, Italian (Naples, Italy c. 1500 - 1583 Ferrara, Italy)
Previously attributed to Francesco Salviati, Italian (Florence, Italy 1510 - 1563 Rome, Italy)
Title
A Woman Walking to the Right
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312432

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
37.8 × 24.5 cm (14 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, l.l., graphite: J. D. Bohm
  • collector's mark: verso, l.l. corner, blue ink: L. 1442 (J. D. Böhm)
  • collector's mark: lower right corner, black ink: unidentified
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: 6

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joseph Daniel Böhm, Vienna (L. 1442).
Unidentified Collector. Collector's mark.
Sotheby's, London, sold to Seiden and de Cuevas Inc., 1979. Sale, London, 28 June 1979, no. 33, repr. Placed on long-term loan at Fogg Art Museum in 1979. Seiden and de Cuevas Inc. became Vermeer Associates Ltd.
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, sale at Sotheby's, London, 1979, sold to HUAM, 1998. Sale, 28 June, 1979, no. 33, repr. Placed on long-term loan at Fogg Art Museum in 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Fund in honor of Crawford H. Greenewalt
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.185
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of an Interesting Collection of Old Master Drawings formed by an Eminent Connoisseur, the Property of his Widow, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, June 28, 1979), no. 33, p. 24; repr. p. 73

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