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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.108
People
Luigi Crespi, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1709 - 1779 Bologna, Italy)
Previously attributed to Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1665-1747 Bologna, Italy)
Title
Portrait of a Woman
Other Titles
Former Title: Princess Hercolani
Former Title: Portrait of Princess Ercolani
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230461

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
85.1 x 67.3 cm (33 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.)
framed: 103 x 107 cm (40 9/16 x 42 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper left, blue chalk: Bx36
  • inscription: verso, center stretcher: PRODUCE OF [stamped] ITALY [handwritten, blue pencil]
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: #6
  • inscription: verso, upper left, black chalk: Box 32-3
  • label: verso, center stretcher, typed text, blue bordered, mostly torn: PROPER [illegible text] Crespi, Lady's Portrait
  • label: verso, upper center: California Palace of Legion of Honor / Title P. of Princess Ercolani / Owner: Jacob M. Heimann / Address: New York, NY (Baroque Show)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert H. Oppenheimer, Berlin, by 1925. [1] [Jacob M. Heimann, New York, by 1941], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Notes:
[1] 1925 exhibition gives Oppenheimer as owner.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.108
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, 1941), pp. 15, 68, cat. no. 26, repr. p. 68 [as by Giuseppe Maria Crespi]
  • [Reproduction only], "Italian Painting", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943)., repr. in b/w p. 46
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 9
  • "Sixteen Reproductions", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, January 8, 1944), vol. XLVI, pp. 217-20, repr. p. 220
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), pp. 100-101, no. 77, repr. p. 101
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 59
  • Renato Roli, Pittura bolognese, 1650-1800: dal Cignani ai Gandolfi, Edizioni ALFA (Bologna, 1977), p. 172, repr. as fig. 327d
  • Sydney J. Freedberg, "Lorenzo Lotto to Nicolas Poussin", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 389-397, p. 42-43
  • 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)

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Italian Baroque Painting, 17th and 18th Centuries, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 05/16/1941 - 06/15/1941
  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/23/1969 - 03/31/1969
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

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