1965.388: Saint Roch (by Amico Aspertini); verso: Saint Sebastian (by Lorenzo Costa)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.388

People

Recto of drawing attributed to Amico Aspertini, Italian (Bologna, Italy c. 1474 - 1552 Bologna, Italy)
Verso of drawing attributed to Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa, Italian (Ferrara, Italy 1460 - 1535 Mantua, Italy)
Previously attributed to Amico Aspertini, Italian (Bologna, Italy c. 1474 - 1552 Bologna, Italy)
Previously attributed to 16th c. Italian Unidentified Artist

Title

Saint Roch (by Amico Aspertini); verso: Saint Sebastian (by Lorenzo Costa)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th-16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296374

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Metalpoint on gray prepared paper; verso: red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

27.4 x 15.2 cm (10 13/16 x 6 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Verso, upper right, Brown ink: 42 or 27 [in the same hand as on another sheet by Costa and formerly with Wildenstein (see file)]
• watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/12/2002

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, by 1933, 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

1965.388

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 105, p. 68, as Italian 16th c., "of the Bologna-Ferrara region"
• Mimi Cazort and Catherine Johnston, Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 1982), cat. no. 3, pp. 43-44, repr. p. 160, fig. 3 recto (verso, although listed...
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. nos. 24a (recto) and 24b (verso), n.p., and p. 26 (r.), repr. (recto and...
• H. von Kügelgen, "Aspertini, Amico", K. G. Saur (Munich, Germany, 1992), p. 443
• Marzia Faietti, "L'influsso della cultura fiorentina nell'evoluzione stilistica del disegno bolognese tra la fine del Quattrocento e gli inizi del Cinquecento", Florentine Drawing at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent, ed. Elizabeth Cropper, Nuova Alfa Editoriale (Bologna, Italy, 1994), pp. 197-216, p. 211; repr. fig. 12
• Marzia Faietti and Daniela Scaglietti Kelescian, Amico Aspertini, Artioli Editore (Modena, 1995), cat. no. 28, pp. 243-44, repr. p. 243, figs. 28r (recto) and 28v (verso) as...
• Everett Fahy, Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe, Alberto Bruschi (Florence, Italy, 2000), cat. no. 643, p. 60, and pp. 351 and 414, repr. (verso) p. 315, fig. 643...
• James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 3, pp. 27-29, and pp. 13 and 16, repr. color p. 28, fig. 3R (recto)...

Exhibition History

• Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 09/11/1981 - 11/08/1981
• Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001

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