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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.375
People
Copy after Giulio Campi, Italian (Cremona, Italy c. 1508 - 1573 Cremona, Italy)
Copy after Gaudenzio Ferrari, Italian (Valduggia, Italy 1480 - 1546 Milan, Italy)
Title
The Assumption of the Virgin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Cremona
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296688

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash heightened with white gouache on blue antique laid paper, laid down overall to wove card, decorated mount
Dimensions
46 x 31 cm (18 1/8 x 12 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left: [G]audencio Milaso [in Roman letters, below which in a seventeenth-century hand is:] Casa Ferrari Sc. di Pietro Perugino [in running script; another line is cut away and the same hand has changed "Milaso" to "Milanese"]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
F. Abbott. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, by 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
1965.375
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 88, p. 63; vol. 2, repr. fig. 71 as Gaudenzio Ferrari
  • The Life of Christ: A Loan Exhibition of Works of Art Illustrating Episodes in the Life of Christ, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1948), cat. no. 61, p. 12 as Gaudenzio Ferrari

Exhibition History

  • The Life of Christ; a loan exhibition of works of art illustrating episodes in the life of Christ, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 03/12/1948 - 04/25/1948

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