1926.33.21: Tree, from the Background of a Picture by an Early Flemish Master, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.21

People

Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
After Hans Memling, Flemish (Mëmlingen, Belgium 1425-40 - 1494 Bruges, Belgium)

Title

Tree, from the Background of a Picture by an Early Flemish Master, in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence

Other Titles

Former Title: Tree, after Memling

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1877-1878

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/306316

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

28.2 x 19.4 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r.: From and early Flemish picture/ in the Ufizzi [sic] Gallery--Florence

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.33.21

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

This is copied from a tree in the background of Hans Memling's 15th-century "Portrait of a Man," now in the Uffizi Gallery.

Publication History

• Charles Herbert Moore, Catalogue, with Notes, of Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice; and of Fac-similes and Original Works to be Used as Exercises in Drawing, Belonging to the Fine Arts Department of Harvard University, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 1878), p. 23, cat. 37
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 249, cat. 237

Exhibition History

• Studies and Fac-similes from Examples of the Works of Florence and Venice..., Harvard Art Club, Cambridge, 12/01/1878 - 12/31/1878

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