DrawingsItalian17th-18th century

Return of Jephtha

17th-18th century

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Pietro da CortonaArtist after

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black and brown ink, black and gray wash, traces of graphite, framing line in black chalk and brown ink, on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 22.6 x 20.8 cm (8 7/8 x 8 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled [Sketches of Figures, Locomotive]

Lyonel Feininger, 6/11/1912

Graphite on envelope

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (design for Korea Olympics on adhered pages, right page)

Otto Piene, 1988

Black marker, paper, and adhesive on paper

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (notes, right page)

Otto Piene, 2005

Colored marker and black ink on paper

21st centuryGerman

Drawings

Dido and Aeneas

Félix Boisselier, 18th-19th century

Graphite on oiled antique laid paper

18th-19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (sketch of past sky event for goauches, right page)

Otto Piene, 1992

Colored marker on paper

Drawings

Study for "The Month of February"

Fernando Zóbel, 1963

Black ink on white paper

20th centurySpanish

Drawings

How Four Queens Found Launcelot Sleeping; verso: Tabernacle(?) and Two Heads

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1893

Black ink over graphite on white paper; verso: heads in red chalk, sketch in graphite

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

ARTISTS' SKETCHES. (23)

Unknown Artist

Chinese

Drawings

Houses and Figure Study; verso: blank page

Henri-Edmond Cross, 19th-20th century

Graphite, colored pencil and black ink on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bleed-through of following page, right page)

Otto Piene, 2012

Colored marker on paper

Drawings

A Woman Skinning a Seal; Illustration for "Salamina" by Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent, c. 1935

Black ink, black crayon and white gouache on off-white laid paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (note with color transfer, right page)

Otto Piene, 1989

Colored marker on paper