98.1942: Study for "Jason Returning to Demand His Father's Kingdom"

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

Permissions

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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

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