1939.24: Casino del Monte (Villa Ludovisi)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1939.24

People

Israël Silvestre, French (Nancy 1621 - 1691 Paris)

Title

Casino del Monte (Villa Ludovisi)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1650

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297838

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, watercolor, and gray and brown wash on cream antique laid paper, with framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

20.6 × 31.6 cm (8 1/8 × 12 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon and 13th Earl of Lindsey, London and Gilmilnscroft House, East Ayrshire; sale [Sotheby’s, London, 17 July, 1935, part of lot 5]; [Colnaghi, London (by 1935)] sold; to Philip Hofer, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer

Accession Year

1939

Object Number

1939.24

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Raffaella Morselli and Caterina Volpi, Guercino: L'era Ludovisi a Roma, exh. cat., Scuderie del Quirinale (Rome, 2024), cat. no. 44, repr.
• Gustavus Mayer, Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (London, 1935), no. 15
• Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 29
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 595, fig. 303
• Clovis Whitfield, Caravaggio's Eye, Paul Holberton Publishing (London, 2011), p. 159, fig. 113
• Laura Bartoni, Lusingare la vista: il colore e la magnificenza a Roma tra tardo Rinascimento e Barocco, ed. Adriano Amendola, Edizioni Musei Vaticani (Vatican City, 2017), p. 141, fig. 3
• Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492-1692, Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden) (Leiden/Boston, 2019), p. 385, fig. 20.8
• Laura Bartoni, "L'allestimento delle collezioni nella villa pinciana: spazi, criteri, funzioni" (Rome, 2022), pp. 100-101

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth Century by Israel Silvestre (1621–1691), P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., 10/01/1935 - 11/01/1935
• Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
• Guercino: L'era a Ludovisi a Roma, Scuderie del Quirinale, 10/31/2024 - 01/26/2025

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