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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.25
People
Augustin Pajou, French (Paris 1730 - 1809 Paris)
Title
Medici Thusnelda
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1761-1762
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293765

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash with traces of black chalk, on cream antique laid paper, with cream antique laid paper border adhered to face
Dimensions
27.6 x 15.1 cm (10 7/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom left, black ink, in artist's hand: De la Villa / Medicis

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Augustin Pajou, Paris, 1809; Pajou family, France, by descent, 1809; Galerie Cailleux, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, inv. no. D-F-374 gift to Harvard University Art Museums, inv. no. 1999.25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A.268, p. 426
  • Sonia Couturier, ed., Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale and National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 2011), pp. 26-27, 217, cat. no. 3, repr.
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), p. 518-n.1

Exhibition History

  • Drawn to Art: French Artists and Art Lovers in 18th-Century Rome, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 10/21/2011 - 01/02/2012

Verification Level

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