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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.237
People
Pier Francesco Mola, Italian (Coldreio, Switzerland 1612 - 1666 Rome, Italy)
Title
Seated Pope Blessing; verso: Saint Being Boiled in Oil
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298261

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: red chalk and brown ink
Dimensions
15.7 × 11.1 cm (6 3/16 × 4 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles A. Loeser, Florence, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.237
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), no. 295
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 33, pp. 78-79, and p. 9, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 60, repr. fig. 44
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con due stelle rosse")
  • "Painting the Pope: A Fascinating Insight into Papal Patronage", auct. cat. (November 2008), p. 104
  • Francesco Petrucci, Pittura di ritratto a Roma: il Seicento, Andreina & Valneo Budai (Rome, 2008), vol. 2, p. 357

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