1932.348: The Entombment

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.348

People

Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian (Caravaggio, near Bergamo, Italy c. 1499 - 1543 Messina, Italy)
Previously attributed to Perino del Vaga, Italian (Florence, Italy 1501 - 1547 Rome, Italy)

Title

The Entombment

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

16th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298681

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

11.7 × 18.3 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Rembrandt(?). Jan Baptist de Graaf, Amsterdam (Lugt 1120). 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

1932.348

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

mounted overall to laminated cream antique laid paper

Publication History

• William R. Valentiner, "Erwiderung", Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst (1921), XXXII, pp. 172-174, p. 174, repr.
• William R. Valentiner, Die Handzeichnungen Rembrandts, E. Weyhe Gallery and Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (New York and Stuttgart, Germany, 1925), vol. II, repr. p. 200 (no. 627A)
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 193, pp. 102-103; vol. 2, repr. fig. 104 as Perino del Vaga
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 32, repr. fig. 13, as Polidoro da Caravaggio
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 122 ("Cartella R")
• Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Polidoro da Caravaggio: l'opera completa, Electa Napoli (Naples, Italy, 2001), cat. no. D58, fig. 67, pp. 50, 63, 67, 472
• Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Rembrandt, exh. cat., Edition Minerva and Albertina (Wolfratshausen, 2004), p. 308, repr.
• Jonathan Bikker, Gregor J. M. Weber, Marjorie E. Wieseman, and Erik Hinterding, Rembrandt: The Late Works, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (London, 2014), pp. 84-86, fig. 37 on p. 85
• Michiel C. Plomp, "Artist Collectors: Rembrandt and His Time", A Demand for Drawings: Five Centuries of Collectors and Collecting Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2018), pp. 45-56, pp. 48-49, repr. p. 48 as fig. 41
• Holm Bevers, Georg Josef Dietz, and Antje Penz, Zeichnungen der Rembrandtschule im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, exh. cat., Sandstein Verlag (Berlin, 2018), pp. 254-256, repr. p. 256

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