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Sketch of kneeling woman facing right

A woman kneels facing the right, her body in profile. She wears a long dress and a transparent veil. There is great detail in the folds of the fabric of her dress, which are shaded and highlighted with sheer white pigment. Additionally, the figure appears backlit due to white highlighting on the back of her legs and shoulders. The lines of the sketch are light and faint. Certain areas of the subject, such as the woman’s hands, are suggested rather than highly detailed. The background of the sketch is a gray-beige color.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1935.31
People
Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1474 - 1515 Florence, Italy)
Title
Study for a Portrait of Violante Aldovrandini
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th-16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298007

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint and white gouache on gray prepared antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.4 x 21.6 cm (8 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • collector's mark: Lower right corner: L. 991
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/5/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
François Flameng (1856-1923), Paris (Lugt 991) sold; through [Galerie Georges Petit, May 26-27, 1919, lot 43] sold; to Edouard Jonas, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edouard Jonas
Accession Year
1935
Object Number
1935.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection François Flameng: Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens et Modernes, Pastels, Dessins . . ., vol. 1, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, 1919), no. 43, p. 27
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 50, pp. 43-44; vol. 2, repr. fig. 43 as Mariotti...
  • Everett Fahy, "The Beginnings of Fra Bartolommeo", The Burlington Magazine (September 1966), vol. CVIII, pp. 456-63, p. 459, repr. p. 461, fig. 14
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 8, n.p., pl. 8, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, "On Silverpoint Drawings and the Subject of Left-Handedness", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), pp. 150-64, text and fig. 6, p. 155
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 16, n.p., and p. 26, repr. color
  • Chris Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo et son atelier: Dessins et peintures des collections françaises, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1994), under cat. no. 1, p. 23

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979

Verification Level

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