1959.25: Saint Francis Kneeling

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1959.25

People

Bernardino Capitelli, Italian (Siena, Italy 1590 - 1639 Siena, Italy)
Ventura Salimbeni, Italian (Siena, Italy 1568 - 1613 Siena, Italy)

Title

Saint Francis Kneeling

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Siena

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297157

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper; remounted on conscript list from the time of the French Revolution

Dimensions

32.4 × 23.4 cm (12 3/4 × 9 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Dr. Fritz B. Talbot, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot

Accession Year

1959

Object Number

1959.25

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Roberto Contini, "Rutilio Manetti and a Stocktaking of Bernardino Capitelli's Work", The Statens Museum for Kunst Journal (1998), vol. 2, pp. 32-45, pp. 33, 37, fig. 1, repr.
• Chris Fischer, Central Italian Drawings: Schools of Florence, Siena, the Marches and Umbria, Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001), under cat. no. 193, p. 279
• Philippe Costamagna, Florian Härb, and Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Disegno, giudizio e bella maniera: Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, 2005), under cat. no. 105, p. 174

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