Study for a Seated Christ | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1938.48
People: ? Tommaso Chiari, Italian (1665 - 1733)
Previously attributed to Carlo Maratti, Italian (Camerano, Italy 1625 - 1713 Rome, Italy)
Title: Study for a Seated Christ
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 17th-18th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298294

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper
Dimensions: 37.8 × 25.7 cm (14 7/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Therese Kuhn Straus (Mrs. Herbert N. Straus), New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus
Accession Year: 1938
Object Number: 1938.48
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), no. 281
Edgar Peters Bowron, "A Drawing Attributed to Giuseppe Chiari", Dear Print Fan: A Festschrift for Marjorie B. Cohn, ed. Craigen Bowen, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), pp. 33-36, fig. 1, passim

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