DrawingsItalian16th century

The Annunciation

16th century

Artists

Domenico CampagnolaArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

17.9 x 20 cm (7 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo, Venice [with Sagredo inventory numbers T.no: 6 on verso and T no:i on mount; Lugt 2103a], by bequest; his nephew, Gherardo Sagredo, Venice, by descent. [Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 11, 1985, lot 206, repr.] sold; to Paul J. Haldeman, Brookline, Mass. and Jackson, Miss., gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002 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, 1985-2002.

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