2004.67: Trees Near a Pool of Water

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2004.67

People

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Italian (Pieve di Cadore, Italy c. 1488 - 1576 Venice, Italy)

Title

Trees Near a Pool of Water

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1530

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/51222

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink over charcoal on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

24.3 x 20.6 cm (9 9/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Galerie de Bayser, Paris] sold; to [Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London], sold; to John and Alice Steiner, Larchmont, New York, 1976, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2004

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of John and Alice Steiner

Accession Year

2004

Object Number

2004.67

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Terisio Pignatti, "Disegni di Tiziano: tre mostre a Firenze e a Venezia", Arte veneta: rivista di storia dell'arte, pp. 266 - 270 (1976), vol. 30, p. 268 as between Giorgione and Campagnola
• Konrad Oberhuber and Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, exh. cat., Neri Pozza Editore (Venice, 1976), cat. no. 36, pp. 90-91, repr. pl. 36 and cited on p. 17
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1977), cat. no. 31, pp. 86-88, repr. and p. 14
• Michelangelo Muraro, "Grafica Tizianesca", Tiziano e il manierismo europeo, pp. 127-149, ed. Rodolfo Pallucchini, Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, 1978), p. 137
• Konrad Oberhuber, "Tiziano disegnatore di paesaggi", Tiziano e il manierismo europeo, pp. 109-125, ed. Rodolfo Pallucchini, Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, 1978), pp. 118-19
• Terisio Pignatti, Tiziano: Disegni, La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence, 1979), cat. no. 30, n.p., repr. pl. 30, also cited p. 5
• Alfred Moir, ed., Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1986), cat. no. 46, pp. 110-111, repr., and p. 12, also repr. on cover of catalogue
• Harold E. Wethey, Titian and his Drawings: With Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey, 1987), cat. no. 53, pp. 166-67, repr. pl. 85 and pp. 47 and 48
• Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel, "Per un catalogo ragionato dei disegni di Tiziano", Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, pp. 23 - 99, Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, 1988), vol. 16, cat. no. A-19, p. 72, repr. fig. 135 as attributed to Titian
• Robert Cafritz and Lawrence Gowing, Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape, exh. cat., The Philips Collection and Clarkson N. Potter Inc. (Washington, D.C. and New York, 1988), checklist no. 21, p. 259, repr. fig. 24, p. 38 and cited p. 51
• W.R. Rearick, "Titian Drawings: A Progress Report", Artibus et Historiae (1991), vol. 12, no. 23, pp. 9-37, p. 11 and under n. 7, p. 35 as Giulio Campagnola
• Bert W. Meijer, Rondom Rembrandt en Titiaan: Artistieke relaties tussen Amsterdam en Venetië in prent en tekening, exh. cat., Museum het Rembrandthuis (Amsterdam, 1991), cat. no. 14, pp. 40-41
• Le Siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 1993), cat. no. 216, p. 567, repr. and repr. color p. 202, and under cat. nos...
• Michael Jaffé, Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth, exh. cat., British Museum Press (London, 1993), under cat. no. 140, p. 127
• Ronni Baer, Italian and Netherlandish Drawings from the Steiner Collection, brochure, Krannert Art Museum and the High Museum of Art (Champaign, IL and Atlanta, GA, 1994), n.p., repr.
• Martin Royalton-Kisch, The Light of Nature: Landscape Drawings and Watercolours by Van Dyck and his Contemporaries, exh. cat., British Museum Press (London, 1999), p. 39, repr. fig. 33, p. 40
• Stephan Wolohojian, Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), checklist no. 24, n.p.
• John Pope-Hennessey and Stefano Zuffi, Tiziano, Electa (Milan, Italy, 2004), repr. color p. 21 as Titian
• Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2004-2005 (Cambridge, MA, 2005), p. 22, repr. (color)
• Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 73, repr.

Exhibition History

• Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 08/17/1976 - 11/07/1976
• Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from the Collections of John and Alice Steiner, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/18/1977 - 01/15/1978; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 02/17/1978 - 03/20/1978; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 04/17/1978 - 06/17/1978
• Old Master Drawings from the Collection of John and Alice Steiner, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 04/18/1986 - 06/08/1986; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 08/09/1986 - 09/14/1986; Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, 10/05/1986 - 01/04/1987; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, 02/27/1987 - 04/12/1987
• Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/06/1988 - 01/22/1989
• Rondom Rembrandt en Titiaan: Artistieke relaties tussen Amsterdam en Venetië in prent en tekening, Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, 02/16/1991 - 04/21/1991
• Le siècle de Titien: L'âge d'or de la peinture à Venise, Grand Palais, Paris, 03/09/1993 - 06/14/1993
• Italian and Netherlandish Drawings from the Steiner Collection, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, 01/22/1994 - 02/27/1994; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 03/20/1994 - 05/29/1994
• Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/17/2001 - 07/23/2001
• 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/18/2015

Subjects and Contexts

• Google Art Project

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