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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.356
People
Fra Bartolommeo della Porta, Italian (Florence, Italy 1472 - 1517 Florence, Italy)
Title
Madonna and Child with a Kneeling Angel; verso: Madonna and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1500
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296635

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: black chalk
Dimensions
15 x 20 cm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
framed: 37.5 x 42 x 4.5 cm (14 3/4 x 16 9/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Six-pointed star in a circle (similar to Briquet 6077 but without the cross)
  • collector's mark: Lower right corner, Blue ink: L. 874 (E. J. Poynter) [The collector's mark is stamped twice]
  • collector's mark: Lower right corner, Black ink: L. 2799 (William Mayor)
  • inscription: Top edge, Brown ink: [Indecipherable -- the Inscription is badly faded and cut off]
  • inscription: Lower left corner, Brown ink: [Obscured. Possibly "EJP"]
  • inscription: verso of mount, bottom center, graphite: 9

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[William Mayor, London (Lugt 2799)]. Edward John Poynter, London (Lugt 874), sold [Sotheby’s, London, April 24-25, 1918, lot 12] to; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York] sold; to Paul J. Sachs, 1919, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.356
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Fritz Knapp, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schüle von San Marco, Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp (Halle, Germany, 1903), cat. no. 314
  • Catalogue of the Poynter Sale, auct. cat., Sotheby's (London, England, April 24, 1918), cat. no. 12, repr.
  • Hans von der Gabelentz, Fra Bartolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance, Karl W. Hiersemann (Leipzig, Germany, 1922), vol. 2, cat. no. 314, p. 135
  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), cat. no. 19, n.p., repr., also cited in the introduction, n.p.
  • Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), cat. no. 17
  • Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1938), vol. 2, cat. no. 212B, p. 24
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 57, pp. 47-48; vol. 2 repr. fig. 48
  • Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy, Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, 1941), cat. no. 19, n.p.
  • Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New York, 1943), cat. no. 77, p. 117, repr.
  • Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 20
  • Five Centuries of Drawings, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada, 1953), cat. no. 39, n.p., repr.
  • Gertrude Rosenthal, Bacchiacca and his Friends; Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1961), cat. no. 27, p. 46
  • 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. 8, n.p., repr.
  • Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
  • Chris Fischer, Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola, exh. cat., Leo S. Olschki Editore (Florence, Italy, 1986), under cat. no. 31, p. 73
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 253, p. 218, repr. p. 218
  • Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), no. 47, repr. pp. 34-35

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
  • Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
  • Italian Drawings, 1330-1780, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • Five Centuries of Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 10/01/1953 - 11/30/1953
  • Bacchiacca and his Friends; Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 01/10/1961 - 02/19/1961
  • 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; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009

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