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Identification and Creation

Object Number
98.1942
People
Washington Allston, American (Georgetown, SC 1779 - 1843 Cambridge, MA)
Title
Study for "Jason Returning to Demand His Father's Kingdom"
Other Titles
Former Title: Jason Returning To Demand His Father's Kingdom: Sketch
Former Title: The Departure of Regulus to Return to Carthage
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1807-1808
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232422

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite, black and white crayon on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions
88.3 x 111.8 cm (34 3/4 x 44 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
98.1942
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), pp. 81-83, 191, no. 42, pl. XIII
  • Thomas W. Leavitt, "The Disposition of the Washington Allston Trust", The Art Quarterly, Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Winter 1956), vol. XIX, no. 4, pp. 415-417, p. 416
  • William H. Gerdts, "Washington Allston and the German Romantic Classicists in Rome", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1969), vol. XXXII, no. 2, pp. 167-196, p. 185, fig. 22
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 32, ill.
  • The Paintings of Washington Allston, exh. cat., Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, 1975), pp. 23, 28 cat. 11, ill.
  • 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. 181, cat. 17, ill.
  • David Bjelajac, Washington Allston, Secret Societies, and the Alchemy of Anglo-American Painting, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 22-24, fig. 6
  • 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. 56-57, cat. 14, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • The Paintings of Washington Allston, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 03/06/1975 - 04/13/1975
  • "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

Verification Level

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