1932.240: Saint Ambrose

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.240

People

Giacomo Cavedone, Italian (Sassuolo, Italy 1577 - 1660 Bologna, Italy)

Title

Saint Ambrose

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298262

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk heightened with pink-white gouache on dark tan antique laid paper with framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

28.5 x 39.2 cm (11 1/4 x 15 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• collector's mark: lower left, black ink: V in a crowned and winged escutcheon (L. 2501)
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Three fleur-de-lis

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Unidentified collector (Lugt 2501). Unidentified collector (Lugt 2781). 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

1932.240

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 242, p. 126; vol. 2, repr. fig. 125
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 10
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 276, n.p., repr. color
• Frederick Cummings and Rudolf Wittkower, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Detroit, MI and New York, NY, 1965), cat. no. 89, p. 91, repr.
• 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. 37, n.p., pl. 37, repr.
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 29, pp. 70-71, 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), cat. no. 55, n.p., and p. 60, repr. (color)
• 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")
• Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d'Estampes, website, Fondation Custodia, 2015, under no. 2501
• Catherine Phillips, "Giacomo Cavedone: Drawings from the Cobenzl Collection, now in the Hermitage", Master Drawings (Autumn 2018), vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 317-334, p. 330, fig. 41

Exhibition History

• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/06/1965 - 05/09/1965
• 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
• Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 09/11/1981 - 11/08/1981

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