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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.37
People
Ludovico Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1555 - 1619 Bologna, Italy)
Title
An Angel Swinging a Censer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1610
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Emilia, Bologna
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312455

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and brown ink, heightened with white gouache, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
26.6 x 14 cm (10 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: signed, brown ink, l.r.: Lodovico Cara [cut-off]
  • inscription: old mat, graphite: from the Gilmor Cabinet
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: Lodovico Cara
  • inscription: l.r., black ink: 1610
  • watermark: Small five-pointed crown (see Mongan-Sachs W. 17)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to 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
1898.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 235
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), pp. 13 and 57, repr. fig. 39
  • Babette Bohn, Ludovico Carracci and the Art of Drawing, Harvey Miller (Turnhout, Belgium, 2004), cat. no. 257, p. 406, repr. as autograph

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/08/2016 - 03/10/2017

Verification Level

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