1932.236: Standing Nude Boy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.236

People

Baldassare Franceschini, called Volterrano, Italian (Volterra, Italy 1611 - 1690 Florence, Italy)

Title

Standing Nude Boy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

17th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298739

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Dimensions

24.3 × 13.7 cm (9 9/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: top, ink: Volterrano

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.236

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 303
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 120 ("Cartella con due stelle rosse")
• Thomas McGrath, "Florentine Baroque Drawings at the Fogg Museum of Art", Apollo (January 2004), CLIX, no. 503, pp. 14-20, p. 14
• Thomas McGrath, "Preparatory Drawings by Volterrano at the Fogg Art Museum", Master Drawings (Winter 2005), XLIII, no. 4, pp. 500-507, pp. 501, 505, fig. 5
• Old Master Drawings, auct. cat., Sotheby's, New York (New York, January 26, 2011), under cat. no. 541

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