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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR62.27
People
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
  • 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
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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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