Sheet of Notes

Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.52
Inscriptions: Inscribed "that in this case the / underptg was [illegible] in [illegible] / [illegible]_to Titian - / Titian small pnt Paul / III - highly finished - ground / not to be detected-und ptg drawing[?] / Very care[illegible] & luminous - / greys app.

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page are notes on Titian's method of working. There is also a reference to 'La Fornarina' (Portrait of a Young Woman) (c.1520) by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520).

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00. 

Related Paintings/Projects

Image of painting unavailable. Sketchbook or Notebook including Studies made in Italy and Notes on the Wallace Collection
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