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Identification and Creation

Object Number
122.1942
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Study for "Belshazzar's Feast"; verso: Studies for "Angel Releasing Saint Peter from Prison"
Other Titles
Former Title: Study for "Belshazzar's Feast" verso: Study of heads, figures and drapery
Former Title: Belshazzar's Feast: Study
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1817
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232200

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
64.2 x 86.4 cm (25 1/4 x 34 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's wife Martha Dana Allston at his death, 1843; to the Washington Allston Trust, 1862.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from The Washington Allston Trust
Object Number
122.1942
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar P. Richardson, Washington Allston: A Study of the Romantic Artist in America, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1948), p. 202, no. 101, pl. XXXVIII
  • Russell Lynes, The Art-Makers of Nineteenth-Century America, Atheneum (New York, NY, 1970), p. 92, ill. p. 93
  • William H. Gerdts and Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1979), p. 191, cat. 42, ill.
  • David Bjelajac, Millennial Desire and the Apocalyptic Vision of Washington Allston, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC and London, 1988), p. 105- 107, fog. 28, pl. VIII
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 62-63, cat. 18, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Four Boston Masters, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley, 04/10/1959 - 05/11/1959; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/19/1959 - 06/26/1959
  • "A Man of Genius": The Art of Washington Allston (1779-1843), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 12/12/1979 - 02/03/1980; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/28/1980 - 04/27/1980

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