Sheet of Notes

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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: 1946.35.53
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Naples museum / Holy family Parmigianino / tempera (underpainted) is / [illegible] to be [crossed out] painted or / Jesus under p same way / - varnished & painted in oil / Titian layer under ptg / Paul III, with [2 illegible words] / [ille

Interpretation

This page of Leighton's notes on the painting methods of the Old Masters includes references to 'Portrait of Pope Paul III without a Cap' (1543) by Titian, at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples and Parmigianino (Italian painter, 1503-1540).

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.