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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2002.95.19
People
Hubert François Bourguignon Gravelot, French (Paris 1699 - 1773 Paris)
Title
Henry IV Showing Sully the Letters from Poitou Detailing a Conspiracy
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Memoires, by Maximilien de Béthune Duc de Sully (London: 1747)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1747
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/146745

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and brown ink with graphite and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, incised, framing lines in red chalk, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
6.5 x 11.2 cm (2 9/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower edge, graphite: D3885 £ 22-10-0

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Haldeman
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
2002.95.19
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), p. 47, repr. p. 47 as fig. 5

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