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: 1946.35.56
Inscriptions: Inscribed "St Catharine c Venice / (copy of Tob and angel by / Titian) - / same church [two illegible words] paintings / Schiavonesque - ground were / laid bare [illegible] white & crms / up in powder / Pal. Giovanelli -Venice / & retouched / Georgio

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to: Giorgio da'Castelfranco Giorgione (Venetian Painter, 1476/8-1510), 'Judith', c.1504, oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia; Andrea Meldolla Schiavone (Venetian painter and etcher, c.1510/15-1563); Palazzo Giovanelli, house in Venice; School of Titian, 'Tobias and the Angel', 1576; Palazzo Contarini, Venice

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.