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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.260
People
Copy after Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian (Florence, Italy 1431 or 1432 - 1498 Rome, Italy)
Title
Nude Man
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298940

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
24 x 16.6 cm (9 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1932.260
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), vol. 1, cat. no. 39, pp. 34-35, as copy after Pollaiuolo
  • Sergio Ortolani, Il Pollaiuolo, Ulrico Hoepli-Editore (Milan, Italy, 1948), p. 170, no. 3 under "copie: nudi" as copy after Pollaiuolo and p. 122
  • Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 25, p. 20, as copy after, 16th century
  • Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Disegni umbri: Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1984), p.102
  • Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, exh. cat., National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (London, England, 1999), under cat. no. 51, p. 248
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella con quattro stelle rosse")
  • Shelley Langdale, Battle of the Nudes. Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, 2002), p. 59 (n. 44)

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/01/2016 - 01/31/2017

Verification Level

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