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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1994.152
People
Paolo Caliari, called Veronese, Italian (Verona, Italy 1528 - 1588 Venice, Italy)
Title
Studies for "Paradise," planned for the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1582-1583
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311977

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, mounted at four corners to blue-gray antique laid paper mounted with Sagredo tabs to off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
21.5 x 31.2 cm (8 7/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Brown ink, Italian, in artist's hand: Numerous notations (in Veronese's hand) in brown ink, top center: patriarchi profeti; apostoli; at right edge: 501; two columns of inscriptions, left column: Caravin / Spiritus / Dio e la madona / S. Zuani S. Gisppi con con [crossed out] spiriti dossà / gli apostoli evangelisti in mezo / patriarchi e profeti a banda / pontifici e confesori e dottori et episcopi / marteri e erimiti sacerdoti et . . . esti / vergini e vidue / con anzoli ed alli[?] atorno; right column: Christo e la madona [crossed out] / S. Z battista S. Giosepe / li evangelisti e abando li apostoli / patriarchi e profetti e abanda / pontifici e confissori e dotori / martiri e eremiti / sacerdoti e [illegible] / martiri / vergini e vidui; below, two lists of prophets and saints: Goisue / Elia / S. bortilamio / S. bastian / S. todoro / S. Zorzo
    Lower right, in a late seventeenth-early eighteenth-century hand: da Paolo Caliari; verso, brown ink: una invencione / del Paradiso (Fata[effaced]). [recto inscriptions taken from Rearick, 1995]
    Verso of blue paper mount, brown ink: D.P. no. 92; on album sheet, upper left, brown ink: D.P. no: 67.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory numbers D.P. no: 67 on album sheet and D. P. no. 92 on verso of blue paper mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. Sold in Lyon, c. 1919; to private collector; his great nephew, sold [Christie’s, Monaco, July 2, 1993, lot 19, repr.]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994

Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1993-94.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an Anonymous Donor
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
1994.152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Old Master Drawings", Christie's Review of the Season, Christie's, London (London, England, 1993), p. 32
  • Dessins de Maître Anciens, auct. cat., Christie's, Monaco (Monte Carlo, Monaco, July 2, 1993), lot 19, pp. 28-29, repr. p. 28
  • Dessins de Maître Anciens, auct. cat., Christie's, Monaco (Monte Carlo, Monaco, June 1993-July 1993), lot 19, pp. 28-29; repr. p. 28
  • W.R. Rearick, "More Veronese Drawings from the Sagredo Collection", Master Drawings (Summer 1995), vol. XXXIII, no. 2, pp. 132-143, pp. 137-140 and 142 (n. 21), repr. p. 139, fig. 6
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), pp. 44-46, repr. p. 45 (color)
  • Jean Habert, Le "Paradis" de Tintoret: Un concours pour le palais des Doges, exh. cat., 5 Continents Editions/Musée du Louvre (Milan/Paris, 2006), cat. no. 8, repr. (color), pp. 42, 47, 92, 96, 98, 99, 122
  • Virginia Brilliant and Frederick Ilchman, ed., Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, 2012), p. 267, cat. no. 51, p. 203, repr. p. 204
  • David Rosand, Véronèse, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, France, 2012), pp. 382-383, repr. Fig. 322
  • Diana Gisolfi, Paolo Veronese and the Practice of Painting in Late Renaissance Venice, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2017), pp. 181-182, fig. 266
  • David Rosand, Paolo Veronese, ed. Mary E. Frank, Harvey Miller Publishers (London, 2023), pp. 304-305, repr. p. 305 as fig. 11.30

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • Le "Paradis" de Tintoret: Un concours pour le palais des Doges, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 02/08/2006 - 05/08/2006
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
  • Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 12/07/2012 - 04/14/2013
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 02/26/2024

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