1936.120: Music-Making Angel; verso: Profile Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.120

People

Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), Italian (Città della Pieve, Italy c. 1450 - 1523 Fontignano, Italy)

Title

Music-Making Angel; verso: Profile Head of a Youth Wearing a Cap

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1500-1505

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298707

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Metalpoint over black chalk on white prepared paper; verso: black chalk

Dimensions

29 x 20.1 cm (11 7/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r. corner, Brown ink: Rafaelo [sixteenth-century hand?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Francesco Conestabile. John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London. Henry Oppenheimer (1859-1932), London, sold; [Christie's, London, 10, 13-14 July 1936, lot 134, pl. 34 (as Perugino or Raphael)] to; [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London]; to The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1936; gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.120

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Antonio Mezzanotte, Della vite e delle opere di Pietro Vannucci da Castello della Pieve, cognominato il Perugino, Vicenzio Bartelli (Perugia, Italy, 1836), cat. no. 19, p. 198
• G. C. Conestabile, Catalogue descriptif des anciens tableau et dessins appartenant à Monsieur le Comte Scipion Conestabile della Staffa (Perugia, Italy, 1872), no. 13
• John Postle Heseltine, Original Drawings by Old Masters of the Italian School Forming Part of the Collection of J. P. H., J. J. Waddington, Ltd. (London, England, 1913), cat. no. 35, n.p., repr., as Raphael
• Oskar Fischel, "Die Zeichnungen der Umbrer, Teil II", Jahrbuch der Königlich Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen (Berlin, Germany, 1917), vol. XXXVIII, pp. 1-188, repr. recto, pl. 163, p. 82; cat. no. 95, p. 85
• Adolfo Venturi, "Per Raffaello. Disegni inediti della raccolta Oppenheimer di Londra e della Biblioteca Reale di Windsor", L'arte (January 1921-February 1921), vol. XXIV, no. 1, pp. 49-54, p. 49; repr. recto fig. 1, p. 50
• Arthur Mayger Hind, "Raphael", Vasari Society (1921), 2nd series, part II, no. 2, repr.
• Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana (Milan, Italy, 1926), vol. IX/2: pp. 93-96; repr. fig. 23 (recto), p. 95, and fig. 24 (verso), p. 96
• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1930), cat. no. 588
• Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, ed., A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1930, exh. cat. (London, 1931), cat. no. 710
• Arthur E. Popham, Italian Drawings Exhibited at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1930, Oxford University Press (NY) (London, England, 1931), cat. no. 108, p. 31, pl. XCI
• Charles Holmes, "Henry Oppenheimer--a Collector and his Ways", The London Studio (September 1936), vol. XII, no. 66, pp. 115-134, p. 118 and repr. p. 132 as Perugino or Raphael
• Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenheimer, Esq., F.S.A., auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 10, 1936 - July 14, 1936), lot 134, pl. 34 (as Raphael Santi, "Apollo")
• Agnes Mongan, "A Gift of Old Master Drawings", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, March 1937), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 22-34, pp. 25-28; repr. fig. 4 as "Apollo" by Perugino, p. 26
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 29, pp. 22-23; vol. 2, repr. figs. 27 (recto) and 28 (verso)
• Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), pp. 42 and 46; cat. no. 61, p. 114; repr. pl. 61, n.p.
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), cat. no. 23, p. 46; "recto" [see note] repr. fig. 23, p. 47
• Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of Drawing, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1950), cat. no. 26, verso repr., n.p.
• James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), pp. 14 and 106; repr. recto, p. 5
• Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 243, n.p., repr. color
• Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 20.; repr. recto, pl. 65, p. 97
• Ettore Camesasca, L'opera completa del Perugino (Milan, Italy, 1969), p. 125, recto repr.
• Hugo Wagner, Raffael im Bildnis (Bern, Switzerland, 1969), pp. 35-36; repr. verso no. 11, n.p.
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 30, p. 20
• Sylvia Ferino, "A Re-Examination of the 'Raphael' Drawing in the National Gallery of Canada", National Gallery of Canada Bulletin (1982), vol. III, pp. 62-63; repr. figs. 8 (recto) and 9 (infrared), p. 63; f.n. 14-15, p. 66
• James Sperber, "Technical Examination of Eight Metalpoint Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1983), Unpublished, passim
• Paul Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, with a Complete Catalogue, Phaidon Press (Oxford, England, 1983), no. 5, repr. with "recto" as Raphael, "verso" as Perugino, p. 134
• Pietro Scarpellini, Perugino, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1984)
• Agnes Mongan, "On Silverpoint Drawings and the Subject of Left-Handedness", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), pp. 150-64, p. 155, repr. p. 154, fig. 5 (recto)
• Sylvia Ferino Pagden, "Perugino's Use of Drawing: Convention and Invention", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), pp. 76-102, pp. 99 and 102 (n. 71), repr. p. 100, fig. 26 (recto) and fig. 27...
• 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. 14, n.p., and pp. 18, 22, 24 and 28; repr. (recto) color, n.p.
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 34 under "Metalpoint"
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 14, p. 27, and p. 12, fig. 9 (recto)
• Martin Clayton, Raphael and his Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton (London, England, 1999), under cat. no. 4, pp. 32 and 35; verso repr. fig. 14, p. 32 as attributed to
• James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 2, pp. 26-27, and pp. 13 and 16; repr. p. 26, fig. 2R (recto) and p. 27, fig. 2V (verso)
• Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini, Perugino, il divin pittore, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2004), cat. no. II.10, p. 352, repr. recto and p. 333
• Barbara Agosti and Silvia Ginzburg, Raffaello e gli amici di Urbino, exh. cat., Centro Di (Urbino, 2019), pp. 20-21, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 21

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1930 - 03/08/1930
• The Diamond Jubilee, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 11/04/1950 - 02/11/1951
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998
• Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
• Perugino il divin pittore, Galleria Nazionale dell' Umbria, Perugia, 02/28/2004 - 07/18/2004

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