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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.338
People
Lucas Cranach the Elder, German (1472 - 1553)
Title
Saint Anthony Abbot
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296389

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown and gray wash, squared, on white paper
Dimensions
19 x 19.1 cm (7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum,1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.338
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Oscar Eisenmann, ed., Ausgewählte Handzeichnungen älterer Meister aus der Sammlung Edward Habich zu Cassel, A. Schumann (Leipzig, n.d.), no. 28
  • Joseph Heller, Lucas Cranachs Leben und Werke, J.L. Lotzbeck (Nuremberg, 1854), p. 79
  • Francesco Malaguzzi Valeri, I disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Alfieri & Lacroix (Milan, Italy, 1906), no. 79
  • T.L. Girshausen, Die Handzeichnungen Lukas Cranachs des älteren (Frankfurt, 1936), pp. 20, 63, no. 11
  • Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), introduction, cat. no. 42
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 376, fig. 191
  • Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat., Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1940), cat. no. 17
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 9, repr.
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)

Exhibition History

  • Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984

Verification Level

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