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President and Fellows of Harvard College Identification and Creation Object Number 1932.145 2 of 8
People Agnolo Bronzino, Italian (Monticelli, Italy 1503-1572 Florence, Italy) Title Cleopatra (after Baccio Bandinelli) Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 16th century Culture Italian Physical Descriptions Medium Black chalk on cream antique laid paper Dimensions actual: 38.5 x 21.4 cm (15 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks watermark: Angel encircled with six-pointed star above head--vaguely like Briquet no. 639 CHECK inscription: u.r., brown ink: Angiolo Bronzino 3 of 8
Provenance George William Reid, London, England. Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1932. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser Accession Year 1932 Object Number 1932.145 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Publication History Arthur McComb, Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1928), p. 147; pl. 45, n.p. Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. II, no. 593D, p. 62, as Agnolo Bronzino Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 71, pp. 56-57; vol. 2, repr. fig. 61 Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, 4 of 8
exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 23, n.p. Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), cat. no. 94, p. 120; repr. no. 94, n.p. The Nude in Art, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, CT, 1946), p. 4; no. 8, p. 8; repr. no 8, n.p. A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 7 Craig Hugh Smyth, "Bronzino Studies" (1955), University Microfilms, no. 12, pp. 81-82; fig. 150, n.p. Anxiety and Elegance: The Human Figure in Italian Art, 1520-1580, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1962), no. 5, p. 2 Winslow Ames, Great Drawings of All Time [vol. 1: Italian], ed. Ira Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 204, n.p.; repr. color, n.p. Winslow Ames, Drawings of the Masters: Italian Drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1963), p. 19; pl. 76, p. 108 Drawing Before 1800, exh. cat., Lawrence University (Appleton, WI, 1968), cat. no. 4, repr. as frontispiece Richard F. Howard, Italian Drawings, Modern Paintings and Treasures from the Vatican: 19th Birmingham Festival of Arts, exh. cat., Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL, 1969), cat. no. 4, n.p. Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 20, pp. 52-3, repr. Edward J. Olszewski, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, exh. cat., Cleveland 5 of 8
Museum of Art/Indiana University Press (Cleveland, OH and Bloomington, IN, 1981), cat. no. 9, p. 34, and pp. 8, 11, 26 and 122, repr. fig. 9 as Bronzino 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. 35, n.p., and p. 36, repr. color as Bronzino (?) Larry J. Feinberg, From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum/University of Washington Press (Oberlin, OH, and Seattle, WA, 1991), cat. no. 11, pp. 78-79, repr. Uwe Westfehling, Zeichnen in der Renaissance: Entwicklung, Techniken, Formen, Themen, DuMont Buchverlag (Köln, Germany, 1993), pp. 175-176; repr. no. 46, p. 175; no. 46, p. 337 Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 30 under "Black chalk" Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con due stelle nere") Mario Tinti, "Il Bronzino pittore 'Platonico' - II", Dedalo (Milan and Rome, October 1920), vol. 2, pp. 322-331, repr. p. 326 Larry J. Feinberg, [Letter to Editor], Master Drawings (New York, NY, Summer 1995), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 189-190, p. 190 [incorrectly states cat. entry for "From Studio to Studiolo" is no. 10] Elizabeth Pilliod, Review of "From Studio to Studiolo: 6 of 8
Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes", Master Drawings (New York, NY, WInter 1994), vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 387-392, pp. 391-392 as "Not by Bronzino...could it possibly be Parmesan?" Exhibition History Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941-12/20/1941 A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947-03/30/1947 Drawing Before 1800, Lawrence University, Appleton, 01/07/1968-02/21/1968 Italian Old Master Drawings, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, 03/14/1969-04/01/1969 The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 03/06/1979-04/22/1979 From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 10/14/1991-12/01/1991; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, 01/27/1992-03/15/1992; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, 04/06/1992-05/24/1992 Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994-01/29/1995 This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu 7 of 8
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