Half-Length Figure of an Archer | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1932.249
People: Matteo Rosselli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1578 - 1650 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Bernardino Poccetti, Italian (San Marino di Valdelsa, Italy 1548 - 1612 Florence, Italy)
Title: Half-Length Figure of an Archer
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 16th-17th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298293

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.4 × 19.2 cm (7 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: sun in circle (Briquet 13957?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sir James Knowles. Howard. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, 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: 1932.249
Division: European and American Art
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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. 141, pp. 81-82, as Pocetti
Christel Thiem, Florentiner Zeichner des Frühbarock, Bruckmann Verlag (Munich, 1977), no. 97 (as Matteo Rosselli)
Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con tre stelle rosse")

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