1932.127: Studies of Five Heads with an Indication of a Sixth

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.127

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Studies of Five Heads with an Indication of a Sixth

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

14th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298935

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream parchment

Dimensions

24.4 × 18.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: Top edge, Brown ink, Italian and Latin: Io non v'o iscrito per no esser' stato di bisognio. Questa fo solo per avisarvi quanto e seguito del fato nostro. Io penso che se viene qua l'amicho nostro, che d'egli vedra seconda [sic] con cio modo dellui e di noi capitallo ora, deus inaiutorium meum intende domine ad aiuvandum me festi[na]. ["I have not written because there was no need. I do this only to tell you how much came of our doing. I think that if our friend comes here, from him you will hear, and in this manner from both him and us, what is happening now. God be intent on helping me and hasten to my help. (Translation from "Old Master Drawings. Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest," ed. Konrad Oberhuber, Fogg Art Museum, 1979.) ]
  
• inscription: verso of remains of old mount, u.l., black ink: 5 [in a circle]
  [The drawing appears to have once been laid down and this inscription has been written on the partial remains of some of the old mount]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

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

1932.127

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 42, pp. 36-37; vol. 2, repr. fig. 38, as Tuscan 15th century
• Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 1, no. 20, pl. 44d
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 1, pp. 14-15, and p. 7, repr., as Tuscan, late fourteenth century
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 27, p. 20, and p. 5, repr.
• Ulrike Jenni, "The Phenomena of Change in the Modelbook Tradition Around 1400", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss, Abaris Books (New York, NY, 1987), pp. 35-47, pp. 38 and 47 (n. 5), repr. (recto) p. 39, fig. 6 as Tuscan, second quarter...
• 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. 2, n.p., and pp.15, 16, 17 and 18, repr. color, as Sienese, ca. 1400
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 118 ("Cartella con una stella nera")

Exhibition History

• Watercolors by the Masters Dürer to Cezanne, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 05/01/1952 - 06/15/1952
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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