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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.242
People
Claude Lorrain, French (Chamagne 1604 - 1682 Rome)
Title
Child Entrusted to Chiron
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape with Thetis Entrusting Achilles to Chiron
Former Title: Landscape with Centaur
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1660
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache over traces of graphite on dark cream antique laid paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, partial framing lines in brown ink, laid down on off-white card
Dimensions
22.9 x 12.4 cm (9 x 4 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: Claude / Landscape with a Centaur / XXXIV [lines above and below] / 5 6e FNX / a1241
  • watermark: none visible–drawing laid down

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Monsieur Perry; Frederick Keppel, New York, sold; to Monsieur Rippel; Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.242

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.242
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, auct. cat., Frederick Keppel & Co. (New York, 1915), cat. no. 11, p. 9
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 574, pp. 305-306, vol. 2, fig. 291
  • Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 6, n.p.
  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 82
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), vol. 3, cat. no. 672, n.p.
  • Marcel Roethlisberger, Claude Lorrain: The Drawings, University of California Press (Berkeley, 1968), vol. 1, cat. no. 814, p. 306, vol. 2, pl. 814
  • Andor Pigler, Barockthemen: Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, zweite Erweiterte Auflage, Akadémiai Kiadó (Budapest, 1974), vol. 2, p. 278
  • W. Chandler Kirwin, Five College Roman Baroque Festival, exh. cat., Amherst College (Amherst, 1974), cat. no. 18, n.p.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 62, n.p.
  • Helen Diane Russell, Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1982-1983), cat no. 53, p. 260
  • Hilliard T. Goldfarb, “A Pastoral Scene with Classical Figures by Claude Lorrain", Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, 1983), April, p. 167
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 28, repr., p. 17

Exhibition History

  • Drawings by Old and Modern Masters, Frederick Keppel & Co., 01/07/1915 - 01/30/1915
  • An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Claude Lorrain, 1600-1682, Durlacher Brothers, 01/19/1938 - 02/12/1938
  • Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
  • French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 05/15/1951 - 09/30/1951
  • An Exhibition of Drawings, Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, 04/27/1956 - 05/23/1956
  • Five Colleges Roman Baroque Festival, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, 04/04/1974 - 04/28/1974; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 04/07/1974 - 04/30/1974
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Landover, 10/17/1982 - 01/02/1983; Grand Palais, Paris, 02/15/1983 - 05/16/1983
  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/12/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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