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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.143
People
? Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo), Italian (Pontormo, Italy 1494 - 1557 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian (Fiesole, Italy c. 1537 - c. 1591 Florence, Italy)
Title
Sibyl; verso: Turbaned Head and Muscle Study of an Arm
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298531

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk with erased highlights on buff antique laid paper; verso: black chalk and brown ink
Dimensions
28.5 x 20.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Graphite, upper left: 16; verso, greasy blue pencil: 14; graphite: 5 / 24 / 60 / Pontormo / 75

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Bardini. 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
1932.143
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 1754G, p. 246, as Naldini
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 131, pp. 77-78 as Giovanni Battista Naldini
  • Janet Cox-Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1964), no. A13
  • Paolo Barocchi, "Itinerario di Giovambattista Naldini", Arte Antica e Moderna (1965), vols. 31-32, p. 245
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), repr. (recto) fig. 28, as Pontormo (?)
  • Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., University of Washington Press and Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 32, pp. 136-137, repr. recto and verso as Naldini
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing [4th ed.], Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993), pp. 103 and 106, repr. fig. 3.42
  • 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")
  • Everett Fahy, Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe, Alberto Bruschi (Florence, Italy, 2000), cat. no. 662, p. 61, and pp. 351 and 414, repr. (recto) p. 319, fig. 662...
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004), repr. as fig. 3.40 on p. 102, in b/w

Exhibition History

  • From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991 - 12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992 - 03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992 - 05/24/1992

Verification Level

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