Two Women at a Table, One Reading

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.36
People: Donato Creti, Italian (Cremona, Italy 1671 - 1749)
Title: Two Women at a Table, One Reading
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/312423

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Brown ink on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 11.6 x 15.3 cm (4 9/16 x 6 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Rumohr. Lindner. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA; bequest to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892; gift to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.36
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 315, fig. 154
Marco Riccòmini, Donato Creti: Le opere su carta, Umberto Allemandi & C. (Turin, 2012), p. 31 as cat.19.1, p.69, and repr. as 19.1

Exhibition History

The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/25/1959 - 06/14/1959

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1898.36: Two Women at a Table, One Reading