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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.203
People
School of Giulio Romano, Italian (Rome 1499? - 1546 Mantua)
Title
Study of Architecture for Baptism of Constantine
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312299

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash, with red and black chalks, heightened with white gouache (oxidized to black) on off-white antique laid paper, pricked and incised for transfer
Dimensions
31.4 × 27.4 cm (12 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: center top, above central niche, brown ink, Italian: nota che questo [two illegible words]
  • inscription: u.l. [apparently a continuation of the inscription at center top], brown ink, Italian: perche el fuso dela colonia e tropo lug[n]o 1/2 test [translation: because the shaft of the column is 1/2 head too long [Cammy Brothers, 1/99]]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt. information from B. Weinreb
H. (?) Bosch Reitz, Laren, Netherlands (?), by descent from his great grandfather. Gt. Grandfather: H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt; information from B. Weinreb
B. Weinreb Limited, London, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., 1980. (Seiden & de Cuevas is now known as Vermeer Associates, Ltd)
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, purchased from B. Weinreb Limited, London, 6, sold to HUAM, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Fund in honor of F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.203
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Christoph Luitpold Frommel and Stefano Ray, Raffaello architetto, exh. cat., Electa Editrice (Milan, Italy, 1984), no. 3.4.7, p. 436, repr. fig. 3.4.7 as Workshop of Giulio Romano
  • Konrad Oberhuber and Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Fürstenhöfe der Renaissance: Giulio Romano und die Klassiche Tradition, exh. cat., Kunsthistorisches Museum/Graphischen Sammlung Albertina (Vienna, Austria, 1989), no. I/39, n.p., as Giulio Romano
  • Ernst Gombrich, Giulio Romano, exh. cat., Electa (Milan, Italy, 1989), pp. 302-303 as Giulio Romano (?)
  • Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions Ltd. and Sir John Soane's Museum (London, 1998), p. 366
  • Janet Cox-Rearick and Richard Aste, Giulio Romano: Master Designer: An Exhibition of Drawings in Celebration of the Five Hundreth Anniversary of his Birth, exh. cat., ed. Janet Cox-Rearick, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery (New York, NY, 1999), cat. no. 4, pp. 40-41, repr., and pp. 17, 21, 24

Exhibition History

  • Giulio Romano: Master Designer, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, 09/16/1999 - 11/27/1999

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