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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.141
People
Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)
Title
Two Studies Derived from "Crouching Aphrodite"; verso: Two Studies of a Nude Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
15th-16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298979

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: red chalk
Dimensions
19.9 x 28.4 cm (7 13/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left: Sarto
  • inscription: Verso, lower left: Fra Bartolommeo
  • watermark: fig with two leaves (Mongan-Sachs W. 2)

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
1932.141
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. 2, cat. no. 213, p. 24
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 61, pp. 50-51; vol. 2, repr. figs. 53 (recto) and 52 (verso)
  • Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 24, n.p.
  • Nicholas Snow, Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: A Detroit Adventure in the Arts, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI, 1960), cat. no. 8, pp. 12-13
  • Wendy Stedman Sheard, Antiquity in the Renaissance, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1978), cat. no. 43, pp. 43-44, repr. p. 43 (recto)
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere")
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 40, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

  • Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
  • Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance: A Detroit Adventure in the Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 04/05/1960 - 05/08/1960
  • Antiquity in the Renaissance, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 04/06/1978 - 06/06/1978
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

Verification Level

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