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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.115
People
Nicolas Chaperon, French (Chateaudun 1612 - c. 1655 Lyon)
Title
Bacchanal
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Silenus, Fauns and Nymphs
Former Title: Family of Satyrs
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1635
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/169541

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, partially incised, partial framing lines in black chalk, laid down on Japan paper, drum mounted to cream card
Dimensions
22.8 × 27.8 cm (9 × 10 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Fleur-de-lys [fragmentary]
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Galerie de Bayser, Paris (by 1989); sale, Drouot (Chambelland-Giafferi-Doutrebente), Paris, 22 March 2001, lot 3; Galerie Emmanuel Moatti, Paris and New York; Harvard Art Museums/ Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation and the Drawing Department Acquisition Fund, 2001.115

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Foundation and the Drawing Department Acquisition Fund
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.115
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sylvain Laveissière, Guillaume Kazerouni, and Dominique Jacquot, Nicolas Chaperon, 1612-1654/55: du graveur au peintre retrouvé, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes and Actes Sud (Paris, 1999), pp. 106-108
  • Emmanuel Moatti, Master Drawings, 1600-1900, exh. cat., Galerie Emmanuel Moatti (New York, 2001), cat. no. 5, n.p.
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., “Bacchanals by Poussin and the Circle of Simon Vouet?: Issues Concerning Attribution and Publication", L’Estampe au Grand Siècle: études offertes à Maxime Préaud, Matériaux pour l’histoire, ed. Peter Fuhring, École Nationale des Chartes and Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris, 2010), vol. 9, pp. 337-47, pp. 342-44
  • Louis-Antoine Prat, Le dessin français au XVIIe siècle, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2013), pp. 103, 638
  • 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. 15, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Master Drawings, 1600-1900, Galerie Emmanuel Moatti, 05/09/2001 - 05/25/2001

Verification Level

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