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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.163
People
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian (Castelfranco di Sotto, Italy 1729 - 1804 Florence, Italy)
Title
The Temptation
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312456

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink with gray wash on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
16.5 × 13.3 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left, graphite: P. Novelli dis.
  • inscription: lower left, ink: F. Novello fecit

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.163
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 329

Verification Level

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