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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.86
People
Jacques Stella, French (Lyon 1596 - 1657 Paris)
Title
Ceremony of the Presentation of the Tributes to Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany, Florence
Other Titles
Former Title: Offerta de Tributi e censi de paliotti di Seta, Vasi D’argento, e ceri
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1621
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/355740

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 45.5 × 61 cm (17 15/16 × 24 in.)
sheet: 46.2 × 61.6 cm (18 3/16 × 24 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, center, inside cartouche: SERENISSIMO / FERDINANDO II MAG: ETRVRÆ DVCI / jacobus Stella Pictor Sugunesis / Dedicat consecratque / ipse inueni et delin ea vit / 1621
  • inscription: in plate, below image: Offerta de Tributi, e de Paliottidi Seta, Vasi D'argento, e Ceri - che si fra in Fiorenz ogn' anno d'avanti al sermo: Gran' Duca di Toscana / dalle Citta Terre e luoghi de Susi Stati', eda SS: Raccomandati e feuafarij la Mattina deall Solennita di San' Giò Baptista / con priviligio
  • inscription: lower left, below plate, graphite: [illeg. text]
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: I Et T, avand le 3rd ju [illeg.] au not con [underlined] avent les mots / Aprés I. L. J. [illeg.] / 1500
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: Miel [illeg.] conserve
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: P de B 5 / [illeg.] 4 / RR
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: Mu 1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marianne C. Gourary (1920-2014), New York, sold [through her estate sale, Bloomsbury, London, October 29, 2015, lot 248]. [PRPH Books LLC, New York], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i
Standard Reference Number
Le Blanc, vol. III, no.6

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.86
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fabienne Albert-Bertin, La gravure de la Cérémonie de la présentation des Tributs au Grand-Duc de Toscane, de Jacques Stella, Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Art (2003), vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 75-82, [reference citation, not Harvard impression]
  • Jacques Thuillier, Jacques Stella, 1595-1657, Serge Domini Éditeur (Metz, 2006), p. 46 [reference citation, not Harvard impression]
  • Cats: The Collection of the Late Marianne C. Gourary, auct. cat. (London, October 29, 2015), p. 81, lot 248, repr.

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