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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1955.100
People
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French (Tournus 1725 - 1805 Paris)
Title
Penitent Magdalene; verso: Reclining Female Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1765
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297363

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
41.4 x 29.1 cm (16 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible--laid down
  • inscription: lower right, black chalk: Greuze
  • inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: A20535
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: JEAN BAPTISTE GREUZE / (1725 - 1805) / COLLECTIONS: -G. HUQUIER;B.GEIGER;-H.S. REITUNGEN / 1955.100

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Jacques-Gabriel Huquier, Paris and London (possibly his mark, L.1285, lower left); Dr. Benno Geiger, Venice; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 7-11 December 1920, lot 405; Henry Scipio Reitlinger, London (without his mark, L.2274a); his estate sale, Sotheby’s, London, 14 April 1954, lot 313 (unsold); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 10 November 1954, lot 34; Colnaghi, London (by 1954); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift, inv. no. 1955.100

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1955
Object Number
1955.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Leo Planiczig and Hermann Voss, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Sammlung dr. Benno Geiger, Amalthea-Verlag (Vienna, 1920), cat. no. 77, p. 24
  • Edgar Munhall and Joseph Focarino, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1976-1977), p. 216
  • 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. 76, n.p.
  • Donald A. Rosenthal, La Grand Manière: Historical and Religious Paintings in France, 1700-1800, exh. cat., University of Washington Press (Seattle, 1987-1988), p. 37
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "A New Drawing by Greuze at the Fogg", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2015), vol. 53, no. 4, Winter, pp. 497-502, pp. 497-99, 501, 502-n.4
  • Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, "Lugt 1285: From Gabriel Huquier to Peter Adolf Hall", Master Drawings (New York, 2017), vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 485-538, cat. no. III, 8
  • 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. 80, repr.; verso repr. p. 216

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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