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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.342
People
Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci da Pontormo), Italian (Pontormo, Italy 1494 - 1557 Florence, Italy)
Title
Two Studies of a Nude Youth; verso: Two Profile Studies
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299965

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red chalk on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
43.5 x 28.5 cm (17 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
framed: 58.74 x 44.45 x 3.18 cm (23 1/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Scales in a circle surmounted by a crown (similar to Briquet 2518)
  • collector's mark: l.l. corner, blue ink: L. 1223
  • collector's mark: l.l. corner, red ink: L. 2044
  • watermark: scales in a circle, surmounted by a crown (similar to Briquet 2518; see Mongan-Sachs W. 8)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Giuseppe Vallardi, Milan (Lugt 1223); Giuseppe Pacini (Lugt 2011); Carlo Prayer, Milan (1826-1900) (Lugt 2044); Charles A. Loeser, Florence, 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
1932.342
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • F. M. Clapp, Les Dessins de Pontormo (Paris, France, 1914), pp. 84-85
  • Walter Friedlaender, "Rise of the Anti-Classical Style", Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft (1925), vol. XLVI, p. 4
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, cat. no. 1955A, p. 278
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 145, pp. 83-83; vol. II, fig. 83, repr.
  • Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), p. 120, pl. 95, repr.
  • William G. Constable, The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1946), cat. no. 46
  • Walter F. Friedländer, Pontormo to Greco, the Age of Mannerism; a Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the Century 1520-1620, exh. cat., John Herron Art Institute (Indianapolis, IN, 1954), cat. no. 9, fig. 9
  • Kenneth Sawyer, "'Bacchiacca and Friends' at Museum", The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD, January 15, 1961), p. 4
  • Gertrude Rosenthal, Bacchiacca and his Friends; Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1961), cat. no. 62, p. 54, repr.
  • Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1962), cat. no. 26, repr. (cover)
  • Michael Wentworth, "Eight Study Sheets", The Massachusetts Review (Spring 1964), Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 525-536, pp. 527-528, repr. p. 527
  • Janet Cox-Rearick, The Drawings of Pontormo, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1964), vol. I, cat. no. 151, p. 186, vol. II, fig. 183, repr.
  • Marian Davis and Sam Cantey III, The School of Fontainebleau: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings and Sculpture, 1530-1619, exh. cat., Fort Worth Art Center (Fort Worth, 1965), p. 65, repr.
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
  • Janet Cox-Rearick, "The Drawings of Pontormo: Addenda", Master Drawings (1970), vol. VIII, under cat. no. 142A
  • Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, exh. cat., Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence, RI, 1973), cat. no. 55, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, "Charles Loeser as a Collector of Drawings", Apollo (June 1978), vol. CVII, no. 196, pp. 464-469, p. 466, fig. 4, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 15, pp. 42-43, repr.
  • Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), cat. no. 23, pp. 10, 25-26, 49, fig. 23, repr.
  • Carlo Del Bravo, Dal Pontormo al Bronzino, Artibus et Historiae, IRSA s.c. (1985), vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 75-87, repr. as fig. 1 on p. 76
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 257, p. 221, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 25, pp. 32, 36, repr.
  • Laura Giles, "'Christ before Pilate': A Major Composition Study by Pontormo", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1991), vol. XVII, no. 1, p. 26, fig. 7, repr.
  • Harriet K. Stratis, "The Technical Aspects of Pontormo's 'Christ before Pilate' ", Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 1991), vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 92, 92 n. 5
  • Giulia Fusconi and Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Drawing: The Great Collectors, ed. Gianni Carlo Sciolla, Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino/Amilcare Pizzi Editore (Turin, Italy, 1992), p. 238, fig. 277, repr.
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 204, 210-211, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 (as "Cartella A")
  • William W. Robinson, "Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (2000), vol. 38, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 233-240, p. 234, fig. 1, repr.
  • Thomas McGrath, "Preparatory Drawings by Volterrano at the Fogg Art Museum", Master Drawings (Winter 2005), XLIII, no. 4, pp. 500-507, p. 505, fig. 7, repr.
  • 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), cat. no. 35, pp. 34-35, repr.
  • Giuseppe negli arazzi di Pontormo e Bronzino: Viaggio tra i tesori del Quirinale, exh. cat., Segretariato Generale della Presidenza della Repubblica (Rome, 2010), pp. 218, 229, fig. 109, repr.

Exhibition History

  • The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/01/1946 - 02/03/1946
  • Old Master Drawings, Unknown Venues, 10/01/1949 - 06/30/1950
  • Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 02/14/1954 - 03/28/1954
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Davison Art Center, 1957, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 01/14/1957 - 02/07/1957
  • Bacchiacca and his Friends; Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 01/10/1961 - 02/19/1961
  • Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/01/1962 - 05/25/1962
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • The School of Fontainebleau: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Etchings and Sculpture, 1530-1619, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, 09/15/1965 - 12/05/1965
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • Drawings and Prints of the First Maniera 1515-1535, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 02/22/1973 - 03/25/1973
  • The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979 - 04/22/1979
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 09/06/2011 - 10/01/2011
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2017 - 04/20/2017

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