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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.336
People
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian (Genoa, Italy 1609 - 1664 Mantua, Italy)
Title
The Sacrifice of Noah
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Moses and the Children of Israel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Liguria, Genoa
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298730

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown, blue and ochre gouache, brown, reddish-brown, red and white oil paint on beige paper, white highlights added later (possibly in the 19th or 20th century)
Dimensions
27.8 x 40.9 cm (10 15/16 x 16 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1932.336
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 239, fig. 123
  • Frederick Cummings and Rudolf Wittkower, Art in Italy, 1600-1700, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts/Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Detroit, MI and New York, NY, 1965), cat. no. 177, p. 156, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 31, pp. 74-75, and p. 9, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 62, repr. fig. 45
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella A")
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, From the Hands of the Masters II: From Parmigianino to Matisse, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 2018), p. 34

Exhibition History

  • Art in Italy, 1600-1700, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/06/1965 - 05/09/1965

Verification Level

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