Identification and Creation Object Number 1932.123 People

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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1932.123
People
Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian (Florence, Italy 1420 - 1497
Pistoia, Italy)
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Title
St. Augustine Suffering from a Toothache
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1463-1465
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Brown ink on cream antique laid paper laid down on
mount (a warmer second brown ink used to strengthen
several figures in the major figural group)
Dimensions
actual: 9.7 x 13.2 cm (3 13/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
inscription: verso, along bottom edge, graphite:
Probably [?]/
Gio Bellini [?] Florentine School
[parts of the inscription are not decipherable]
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watermark: Partially cut-off. Two circles connected by
L-shaped line, one circle with two diameters crossing
at right angles.
inscription: Bottom, Brown ink, Italian, in artist's hand:
come santo aughustino a pie di un ficho in un orto gli
venne un grande dolor di denti a modo che no[n]
poteva parlare...preghate idio per me [?]. Venne un
libro da cielo...
inscription: Verso of mount center, Blue crayon: 376a
["a" is underlined]
collector's mark: l.r., brown ink: L. 2184 (Jonathan
Richardson, Sr., 1665-1745)
collector's mark: l.l., blind stamp: L. 2445 (Thomas
Lawrence, 1769-1830)
collector's mark: l.l. corner, brown ink: L. 2617 (W.
Esdaile, 1758-1830)
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London (L. 2184). Thomas
Lawrence, London (L. 2445). WIlliam Esdaile, London
(L. 2617). 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
3 of 7
1932.123
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Sidney Colvin, "The Story of St. Augustine and the
Toothache, The Vasari Society for the reproduction of
drawings by old masters, Oxford University Press (NY)
(Oxford, England, 1907-1908), 1st Series, Part III, cat.
no. 5, pl. 5, n.p.
Georg Gronau, "Benozzo Gozzoli", Allgemeines Lexikon
der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur
Gegenwart, ed. Ulrich Thieme, Verlag von Wilhelm
Engelmann (Leipzig, 1909), vol. III, pp. 341-349, p. 348
Adolfo Venturi, "Dai disegni di Benozzo Gozzoli", L'Arte
(1910), vol. XIII, no. 4, pp. 288-291, p. 288
Raimond Van Marle, Development of Italian Schools of
Painting, Martinus Nijhoff (The Hague, Netherlands,
1923 - 1938), vol. XI, pp. 188-90, fig. 122
H. S. Ede, Florentine Drawings of the Quattrocento,
Robert M. McBride & Company (New York, 1926), no. 12,
p. 16; pl. 12, n.p.
Mario Salmi, "Un libro di disegni fiorentino del sec. XV",
Rivista d'arte, Fratelli Alinari Editore (Florence, Italy,
1930), vol. XII, no. II, 1930, pp. 87-95, p. 95
Agnes Mongan, "The Loeser Collection of Drawings",
Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum , Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, March 1933), vol. II, no. 2, pp. 22-23;
fig. 1, p. 23
Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine
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Painters, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL,
1938), vol. I, pp. 11 and 83; vol. II, no. 529C, p. 47
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg
Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
MA, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 15, p. 13-14; vol. 2, repr. fig. 8
Charles de Tolnay, History and Technique of Old Master
Drawings: A Handbook, H. Bittner and Company (New
York, 1943), p. 44 and no. 44, p. 111; fig. 44, n.p.
Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der
Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil I: Süd- und
Mittelitalien, Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1968), vol. 2, no.
422, pp. 473-4; vol. 4, pl. 322e, n.p.
The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures,
Books: An Exhibition in Honor of Leila Cook Barber,
Professor of Art, Vassar College, 1931-1968 , exh. cat.,
Vassar College Art Gallery (Poughkeepsie, NY, 1968),
cat. no. 8, pp. 5-6
Anna Padoa Rizzo, Benozzo Gozzoli: pittore fiorentino,
Editrice Edam (Florence, Italy, 1972), p. 130; fig. 136,
n.p.
Licia Ragghianti Collobi, Il Libro de' Disegni del Vasari,
Valecchi (Florence, Italy, 1974), vol. I, p. 65; vol. II, fig.
176
Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings:
Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg
Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), p. 8; cat. no. 5, p.
22; repr. p. 23
Francis Ames-Lewis, Drawing in Early Renaissance
Italy, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1981),
p. 134, fig. 121
Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the
Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge,
MA, 1981), pp. 6-7; cat. no. 11, p. 18
Michael Wiemers, "Zur Funktion und Bedeutung eines
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Antikenzitats auf Benozzo Gozzolis Fresko 'Der Zug der
Könige'", Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (1987), vol. 50,
no. 4, pp. 441-470, f.n. 32, p. 456; repr. fig. 33, p. 458;
f.n. 36, p. 461
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. 5, n.p., and pp. 17, 18, 22 and 24, repr.
color
Diane Cole Ahl, Benozzo Gozzoli, Yale University Press
(U.S.) (New Haven, CT, 1996), p. 6; pp. 135-138; under
no. 78, p. 261; p. 335; pl. 163, p. 136
Edward Saywell, "Behind the Line: The Materials and
Techniques of Old Master Drawings", Harvard
University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art
Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 729, p. 9; repr. fig. 2, p. 8
Peter Märker and Gisela Bergsträsser, Hundert
Zeichnungen alter Meister aus dem Hessischen
Landesmuseum Darmstadt, E. A. Seemann (Leipzig,
Germany, 1998), under cat. no. 43, p. 106
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")
Francis Ames-Lewis, The Intellectual Life of the Early
Renaissance Artist, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New
Haven, CT and London, England, 2000), p. 30; f.n. 51, p.
281
Exhibition History
The Italian Renaissance: Prints, Drawings, Miniatures,
Books, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie,
05/02/1968 - 06/09/1968
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Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
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