1932.140: Group of Four Standing Figures (Apostles?); verso: Three Studies for the Infant Saint John

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.140

People

Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)

Title

Group of Four Standing Figures (Apostles?); verso: Three Studies for the Infant Saint John

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th-16th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298530

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.5 x 24.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Hunter's horn (similar to Briquet 7698, 7694)
• collector's mark: Lower left corner of both recto and verso, Blue ink: L. 1902

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Giovanni Morelli (Lugt 1902), bequest; to Gustavo Frizzoni, 1891, sold; to 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

1932.140

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gustavo Frizzoni, Collezione di quaranta disegni scelti dalla raccolta del senatore Giovanni Morelli, U. Hoepli (Milan, Italy, 1886), pl. VI
• Gustave Gruyer, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta et Mariotto Albertinelli, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, France, 1886), vol. I, p. 105
• Fritz Knapp, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schüle von San Marco, Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp (Halle, Germany, 1903), p. 297
• Hans von der Gabelentz, Fra Bartolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance, Karl W. Hiersemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1922), no. 251
• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 41
• Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. 2, cat. no. 212E, p. 24
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 60, pp. 49-50; vol. 2, repr. figs. 50 (recto) and 51 (verso)
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 10, pp. 32-33, and pp. 7-8, repr. (recto)
• Chris Fischer, Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola, exh. cat., Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, Italy, 1986), p. 10
• Giulio Bora and M. Cristina Rodeschini Galati, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Credito Bergamasco (Bergamo, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 4, pp. 58-59, and cat. no. 4, p. 254, repr. color (recto), (also repr..
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 8, 26, 27 and 28, repr. fig. 7 (recto)
• Chris Fischer, Review of "I disegni della collezione Morelli", The Burlington Magazine (January 1990), vol. CXXXII, no. 1042, pp. 42-43, p. 42
• Giulio Bora, Giovanni Morelli: Collezionista di disegni: la donazione al Castello Sforzesco, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1994), cat. no. II.2, pp. 102-103, repr. pp. 271-272 (recto and verso) (color)
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")

Exhibition History

• Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936

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