BR62.27: Mark Antony Visiting Cleopatra after His Defeat of Octavian
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR62.27
- People
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Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, German (Haina, Germany 1722 - 1789 Kassel, Germany)
- Title
- Mark Antony Visiting Cleopatra after His Defeat of Octavian
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Antonius bei Kleopatra nach seinem Sieg über Octavian
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1767
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/222889
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 32 x 24.5 cm (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: verso, bottom stretcher bar, affixed over graphite, printed unless noted: TISCHBEIN (Jean-Henri) / 914[illeg.] Dece[illeg.] 194[or 5]9 [handwritten] (DEUX PENDANTS) / 122 - La Toilette. / 123 - Le Départ du guerrier. / Signés et daté: 1795. [95 crossed out] 67 [handwritten]
- inscription: verso, canvas, upper right, black ink: JC
- inscription: side of frame, blue chalk: 922 [or 66] 7
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Adolphe Stein, Paris], sold; to [Julius Böhler Kunsthandlung, Munich, July 1961], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1962.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
- Accession Year
- 1962
- Object Number
- BR62.27
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
- Petra Tiegel-Hertfelder, Historie war sein Fach: Mythologie und Geschichte im Werk Johann Heinrich Tischbeins d.Ä (1722-1789), Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms (Worms, 1996), pp. 332-333, cat. no. G 36
Exhibition History
- German Rococo and Romanticism, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, 03/12/1977 - 05/01/1977
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