DrawingsItalian16th century

Moses Leading the Israelites to the Promised Land (?)

16th century

Artists

Jacopo Bassano the ElderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk and white gouache on blue-brown antique laid paper, laid down to off-white antique laid paper mount

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

irregular: 23.8 x 38.6 cm (9 3/8 x 15 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory B.B. no. 51 on verso and BB on mount; Lugt 2103a]; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Christie’s, London, July 5, 1994, lot 9, repr.] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998 The drawing may have been part of the large group of Sagredo drawings sold in Lyon c. 1919. Drawing was on long-term loan to the Fogg, 1994-98.

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