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President and Fellows of Harvard College Identification and Creation Object Number 1926.42.2 2 of 7
People Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), Italian (Città della Pieve, Italy c. 1450-1523 Fontignano, Italy) Title Four Standing Apostles Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1495-1496 Places Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria Culture Italian Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink, black chalk and white gouache, incised, on buff prepared antique laid paper, laid down to heavily textured buff antique laid paper Dimensions 29 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: No watermark was observed when 3 of 7
examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002. inscription: bottom edge, l.r., brown ink: Pietro Perugino label: verso of mount, l.l., printed and handwritten in black ink, printed and handwritten: FOGG/ ART MUSEUM/ 26.42.2 inscription: verso of mount, top center, graphite: n7 inscription: l.r. corner, Brown ink: 38 Provenance [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, 16 May 1923, lot. 81], sold. Jacques Auguste Boussac, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1924, lot 178]. Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus, New York; gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1926. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus in memory of her husband, Jesse Isidor Straus, Class of 1893 Accession Year 1926 Object Number 1926.42.2 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu 4 of 7
Publication History Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 15, repr. Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 28, pp. 20-22; vol. 2, repr. fig. 26 Paul J. Sachs, The Pocket Book of Great Drawings, Pocket Books, Inc. (New York, NY, 1951), p. 34, pl. 21 William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark, 1960), cat. no. 5, n.p., repr. Luigi Grassi, I disegni italiani del Trecento e Quattrocento; scuole fiorentina, senese, marchigiana, umbra (Venice, Italy, 1961), p. 218; repr. pl. 108, p. 108 Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1964), cat. 60 Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] : given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 6, n.p., repr. Giulio Bora, I disegni del Codice Resta, Silvana Editoriale (Cinisello Balsamo, 1978), under no. 13/2 Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 3, n.p., pl. 3, repr. Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the 5 of 7
Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 31, p. 21; p. 7 Pietro Scarpellini, Perugino, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1984), repr. fig. 125, p. 202 Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY, 1985), cat. no. 250, p. 217, repr. p. 217 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. 13, n.p., and pp. 10, 18, 22, 24 and 26; repr. color, n.p. Hein-Thomas Schulze Altcappenberg, Die italienischen Zeichnungen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett: Kritischer Katalog, exh. cat., G + H Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1995), p. 244 Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/Princeton University Press (Chicago, IL and Princeton, NJ, 1997), under cat. no. 577, p. 363 Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini, Perugino, il divin pittore, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2004), cat. no. II.19, pp. 366-67, repr. (also detail repr. as bleed page p. 328) Catalogue of Boussac Sale, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, July 9, 1924), cat. no. 178, repr. Arthur E. Popham, "Drawings in the Fogg Museum", The Burlington Magazine (June 1948), vol. XC, no. 543, p. 179 Catalogue of Sale, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, May 16, 1923), cat. no. 81 Agnes Mongan, "Pietro Perugino", Old Master Drawings 6 of 7
(September 1934), vol. IX, no. 34, pp. 25-27, pp. 25-27; pl. 29, n.p. Louise S. Richards, "Three Early Italian Drawings", The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, September 1962), vol. XLIX, no. 7, pp. 168-172, p. 171 Exhibition History Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935-01/31/1935 Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark, 03/17/1960-05/22/1960 Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965-01/15/1966; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 12/19/1966-02/26/1967 European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979-12/16/1979 Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981-08/31/1981 Perugino il divin pittore, Galleria Nazionale dell' Umbria, Perugia, 02/28/2004-07/18/2004 Verification Level 4 - Best. Object is extensively researched, well described and information is vetted Generated on May 28, 2016 at 10:21pm 7 of 7