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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.92
People
Workshop of Filippo Lippi, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1406 - 1469 Spoleto, Italy)
Previously attributed to Fra Diamante, Italian (1430 - 1498)
Title
Saint John the Evangelist
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1450-1469
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228019

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
49.6 x 13.4 cm (19 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of inner frame, graphite, handwritten: [encircled:] 2
  • inscription: back of inner frame, graphite, handwritten: #[1]9074
  • inscription: back of panel, black ink, handwritten: XVI
  • label: back of outer frame, black ink, typewritten: [typed:] Fra Filippo Lippi / "Two Saints" / panel. size, each [ ] x 4 7/8 inches / [handwritten in black ink:] 503
  • inscription: back of outer frame, black crayon, handwritten: 3[5?]16
  • inscription: back of outer frame, graphite: between windows

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Adele L. and Arthur Lehman, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Adele L. and Arthur Lehman
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.92
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), pp. 64 [as by Fra Diamante], 106 [as by Fra Filippo Lippi]
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)

Verification Level

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