Identification and Creation Object Number 1926.42.2
People
Perugino (Pietro Vannucci), Italian (Città della Pieve, Italy c. 1450 - 1523 Fontignano, Italy)
Title
Four Standing Apostles
Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date c. 1495-1496 Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria
Culture Italian
Physical Descriptions Medium
Brown ink, black chalk and white gouache, incised, on buff prepared antique laid paper, laid down to heavily textured buff antique laid paper
Dimensions
29 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
examined by Craigen Bowen, 3/4/2002.
inscription: bottom edge, l.r., brown ink: Pietro Perugino
label: verso of mount, l.l., printed and handwritten in black ink, printed and handwritten: FOGG/ ART MUSEUM/ 26.42.2
inscription: verso of mount, top center, graphite: n7 inscription: l.r. corner, Brown ink: 38
Provenance [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, 16 May 1923, lot. 81], sold. Jacques Auguste Boussac, sold; [Sotheby's, London, 9 July 1924, lot 178]. Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus, New York; gift, to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.
Acquisition and Rights Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus in memory of her husband, Jesse Isidor Straus, Class of 1893
Accession Year 1926
Object Number 1926.42.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
Publication History Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and
Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine
Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 15, repr.
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg
Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
MA, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 28, pp. 20-22; vol. 2, repr. fig. 26
Paul J. Sachs, The Pocket Book of Great Drawings, Pocket Books, Inc. (New York, NY, 1951), p. 34, pl. 21 William H. Gerdts and Elaine Evans Gerdts, Old Master
Drawings, exh. cat., The Newark Museum (Newark,
1960), cat. no. 5, n.p., repr.
Luigi Grassi, I disegni italiani del Trecento e
Quattrocento; scuole fiorentina, senese, marchigiana,
umbra (Venice, Italy, 1961), p. 218; repr. pl. 108, p. 108
Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum
and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art
Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1964), cat. 60 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. 6, n.p., repr.
Giulio Bora, I disegni del Codice Resta, Silvana Editoriale (Cinisello Balsamo, 1978), under no. 13/2 Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six
Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum,
exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 3, n.p., pl. 3, repr.
Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 31, p. 21; p. 7
Pietro Scarpellini, Perugino, Electa (Milan, Italy, 1984), repr. fig. 125, p. 202
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A
Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art
Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA; New York, NY, 1985), cat. no. 250, p. 217, repr. p. 217
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. 13, n.p., and pp. 10, 18, 22, 24 and 26; repr. color, n.p.
Hein-Thomas Schulze Altcappenberg, Die italienischen Zeichnungen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner
Kupferstichkabinett: Kritischer Katalog, exh. cat., G + H
Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1995), p. 244
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A
Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of
Chicago/Princeton University Press (Chicago, IL and Princeton, NJ, 1997), under cat. no. 577, p. 363 Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco Federico Mancini,
Perugino, il divin pittore, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale
(Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2004), cat. no. II.19, pp. 366-67, repr. (also detail repr. as bleed page p. 328)
Catalogue of Boussac Sale, auct. cat., Sotheby's
(London, England, July 9, 1924), cat. no. 178, repr. Arthur E. Popham, "Drawings in the Fogg Museum",
The Burlington Magazine (June 1948), vol. XC, no. 543,
p. 179
Catalogue of Sale, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris,
France, May 16, 1923), cat. no. 81
(September 1934), vol. IX, no. 34, pp. 25-27, pp. 25-27; pl. 29, n.p.
Louise S. Richards, "Three Early Italian Drawings", The
Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH, September 1962), vol. XLIX, no. 7, pp. 168-172, p. 171
Exhibition History Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and
Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts
Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
Old Master Drawings, The Newark Museum, Newark,
03/17/1960 - 05/22/1960
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; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the
Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum
of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
Perugino il divin pittore, Galleria Nazionale dell'
Umbria, Perugia, 02/28/2004 - 07/18/2004
Verification Level 4 - Best. Object is extensively researched, well described and information is vetted
