1932.142: A Figure of a Man in Draped Cloak

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.142

People

Giorgio Vasari, Italian (Arezzo, Italy 1511 - 1574 Florence, Italy)

Title

A Figure of a Man in Draped Cloak

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/293877

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on blue antique laid paper

Dimensions

32.5 x 18.8 cm (12 13/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.142

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• F. M. Clapp, Les Dessins de Pontormo (Paris, France, 1914), p. 85
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 198, p. 105; vol. 2, repr. fig. 106
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")
• Florian Härb, "'Dal vivo' or 'da se': Nature versus Art in Vasari's Figure Drawings, Master Drawings (Fall 2005), XLIII, no. 3, pp. 326-338, p. 336, fig. 22 (color)
• Florian Härb, The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Ugo Bozzi Editore (Rome, 2015), cat. no. 395, p. 581, repr.

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