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.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Seated Female Nude

Giovanni Battista Zelotti, 16th century

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Fragment of an Ornamented Roman Pedestal

Amico Aspertini, 15th-16th century

Brown ink over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

15th-16th centuryItalian

Drawings

Frieze with Two Putti, Birds, Armour and Weapons

Paolo Farinati, 16th century

Brown ink and brown wash heightened with white gouache, traces of black chalk, on dark cream antique laid paper, laid down overall to cream antique laid paper

16th centuryItalian

Drawings

The Virgin and Child in Glory with Saint Anthony Abbot, Saint Barbara and Saint John the Baptist

Stefano dell' Arzere, 16th century

Brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white gouache, touches of pink gouache and later retouches of graphite on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall to decorative border

16th centuryItalian