2009.49: Experiment of the Bowl
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2009.49
- People
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Pietro della Vecchia, Italian, Venetian (Venice or Vicenza 1602/03 - 1678 Venice)
- Title
- Experiment of the Bowl
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Esperimento dell'inghistera
Alternate Title: Scene of Witchcraft - Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1640
- Culture
- Italian, Venetian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/331245
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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60 × 84 cm (23 5/8 × 33 1/16 in.)
framed: 68.6 × 91.4 cm (27 × 36 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: On back of stretcher, upper right.: Bowling Green / Storage and Van Company / 250 W. 65th ST. New York 23, NY / Trafalgar 7-5656 / Lot no. C 4866 / Piece no. 052
- (not assigned): On back of stretcher, left side. Written in white chalk.: E2816
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(not assigned): On back of stretcher, upper left. Handwritten in green ink on a white sticker.: #81 Pietro
- (not assigned):
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private collection, United Kingdom. [Knight, Frank & Rutley, London sold]; to [Julius Weitzner, London, by 1961] sold; through John Maxon to Daniel P. S. Paul, Miami, Florida by 1964, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2009.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Daniel Paul, Class of 1946
- Accession Year
- 2009
- Object Number
- 2009.49
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Publication History
- Front Matter, The Burlington Magazine (December 1961), Vol. 103, No. 705, p. xxxiii, p. xxxiii
- Bernard Aikema, Pietro della Vecchia, a Profile, Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte (1984), 14, pp. 79-100, 170-206; Fig. 52
- Bernard Aikema, Pietro della Vecchia and the Heritage of the Renaissance in Venice (Florence, 1990), pp. 28-29, 66-67 and 141; cat. no. 163, fig. 60
- Enrico Maria Dal Pozzolo, "Pietro della Vecchia, Giovanni Nani e una rara iconografia bacchica", Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte (2012), No. 36, pp. 137-154, p. 140-141, repr. as fig. 6
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/07/2016 - 05/08/2016
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