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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1977.9
People
Michelangelo Anselmi, Italian (Lucca or Siena, Italy 1491/92 - 1554/56 Parma, Italy)
Title
Hercules and Antaeus (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295795

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
38.1 x 26.3 cm (15 x 10 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Crossed arrows (similar to Briquet 6272)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, sold to Peter Wick, 1961.
Peter A. Wick, Boston, MA, presumably acquired from P. & D. Colnaghi, placed with Angus Whyte Gallery, Boston for sale, 1977.
Angus White Gallery, Boston, MA, acquired from Peter Wick, sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1977. Sold to Fogg with partial gift from Peter Wick. Gallery address: 121 Pinckney Street, Boston, MA 02114.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter A. Wick and in part purchase from the Marian H. Phinney Fund
Accession Year
1977
Object Number
1977.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 33, n.p., and p. 36, repr. recto (color)
  • Françoise Viatte, "Acquisitions", Revue du Louvre: La Revue des Musées de France (June 1999), no. 3, pp. 83-109, under no. 7, p. 85
  • James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 5, pp. 30-32, repr. color p. 31, fig. 5R (recto) and fig. 5V (verso)...

Exhibition History

  • Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001

Verification Level

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