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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.285
People
Innocenza da Imola, Italian (Imola, Italy c. 1485 - c. 1548 Bologna, Italy)
Previously attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1420 - 1497 Pistoia, Italy)
Title
Study for the Annunciation in S. Maria dei Servi, Bologna
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297155

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash and black chalk (?) with white gouache on brown prepared paper
Dimensions
21.4 × 17.3 cm (8 7/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: l.r., black ink, stamped: L.s. 2770a
  • (not assigned): Watermark visible during examination by Craigen Bowen on 3/14/2002. Beta required.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
A. Koster. [C.G. Boerner, Leipzig]. A. G. B. Russell, London. [Saville Gallery, Ltd., London, 1929, no. 40]; [Agnew, London] to; Paul J. Sachs, May 25, 1929, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.285
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Wertvolle Handzeichnungen alter und neuerer Meister des XV. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts, auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Leipzig) (Leipzig, November 13, 1924), no. 35, pl. 2 (as anonymout Italian 15th century)
  • Frank Rutter, "Notes from Abroad", The International Studio (March 1929), vol. 92, no. 382, pp. 61-64, p. 63
  • Drawings by Old Masters, auct. cat., Saville Gallery (London, 1929), no. 40, p. 14; repr. no. 40, n.p.
  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 39, p. 51; repr. whole and detail, no. 39, pl. XVIII, n.p.
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 547A, p. 53, as School of Benozzo Gozzoli
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 16, p. 14; vol. 2, repr. fig. 18 as Benozzo Gozzoli
  • Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat., Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1940), no. 46, pp. 16-17; fig. 46, p. 33
  • Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 29, n.p. as Benozzo Gozzoli
  • A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 1
  • Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 40, n.p.; repr. color, n.p.
  • Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 28; pl. 8, p. 40
  • European Drawings, 1450-1900, exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, California, 1964), cat. no. 1, n.p.
  • 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), no. 2, repr.
  • Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), under no. 477, p. 500
  • Mimi Cazort and Catherine Johnston, Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 1982), cat. no. 5, p. 45, repr. pl. 5
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), repr. fig. 18, p. 31

Exhibition History

  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
  • Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
  • A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • 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
  • Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 09/11/1981 - 11/08/1981

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