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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.126
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Saint Praying
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298953

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash on antique laid paper, squared in black chalk, framing line along bottom edge in brown ink
Dimensions
16.7 × 9.1 cm (6 9/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Old mat: Andrea del Castagno
  • watermark: No watermark was observed when examined by Craigen Bowen, 2/14/2002

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
1932.126
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. 658A, p. 68, as School of Castagno
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 93, p. 65 as Italian 16th century
  • 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")

Verification Level

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