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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.429
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
A Triumphant General Crowned by a Flying Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296382

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
27.2 × 19.7 cm (10 11/16 × 7 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
R. Dalton (Lugt 354). Boussac. Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, Paris (Sotheby & Co., London, May 8, 1929, lot 292). [Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, 1929, 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
1965.429
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of the Very Choice and Valuable Collections of the Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, May 8-10, 1929), lot 292
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 301, fig. 144
  • Leonard Slatkes and Carol Wishy, Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, exh. cat., ed. Julius S. Held, Columbia University (New York, 1959), pp. 23-24, cat. no. 18, repr. as plate XXXVII
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 18, repr.
  • Janice Joann Burandt, "An Investigation of Traditional Drawing Inks: Developing a Methodology for Identification" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1993), Unpublished, pp. 1-10 passim

Exhibition History

  • Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, Knoedler & Co. Inc., 10/13/1959 - 11/07/1959
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967

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