Striding Roman Warrior | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.167
People: Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian (Castelfranco di Sotto, Italy 1729 - 1804 Florence, Italy)
Title: Striding Roman Warrior
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312498

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on buff antique laid paper

Dimensions

32 × 22.1 cm (12 5/8 × 8 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: shield with three six-pointed stars surmounted by a crown bearing a crescent (Mongan-Sachs W. 31)

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: 1898.167
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. 333

Verification Level

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