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Sketch of fabric draped over a figure’s knee

Tan-colored sketch of the fabric of a robe as it drapes over a seated figure’s left knee. The fabric on the left leg is shaded in detailed hatching and linework as it bunches over and under the figure’s thigh. The highlights on the fabric are rendered in sheer white pigment. The upper section of the figure drawing, which extends from about navel to upper thigh, is in light lines with little detail. The less-detailed right leg also has white highlights. Other elements of the scene, including the figure’s feet and some background elements, are visible in faint, simple lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.128
People
Lorenzo di Credi, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1456 - 1536 Florence, Italy)
Title
Drapery Study
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th-16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298936

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metalpoint, brown ink and white gouache on pink prepared antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
25 x 20.6 cm (9 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/14/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pierre-Jean Mariette (Lugt 1852). Count Moriz von Fries, Vienna (Lugt 2903). Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445). 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
1932.128
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. 2757A, p. 355, as "Tommaso"
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 7, p. 9; vol. 2, repr. fig. 7, as School of di Credi
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 8; cat. no. 9, p. 30; repr. p. 31
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), p. 6; cat. no. 16, p. 19
  • 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
  • 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, repr. fig. 1, p. 150; p. 153
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 18, 22, 24 and 28; cat. no. 11, n.p.; repr. color, n.p.; under cat. nos...
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Alexander Perrig, Zeichnungen aus der Toskana: Das Zeitalter Michelangelos, exh. cat., Saarland Museum and Prestel-Verlag (Saarbrücken and Munich/New York, 1997), repr. color p. 169; cat. no. 48, p. 170 as school of Lorenzo di Credi
  • 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. 33 under "Heightening/Highlights"
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con una stella nera")
  • Thea Burns, The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint, Archetype Publications (London, 2012), p. 99, fig. 42

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

Verification Level

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