BR40.4: The Five Foolish Virgins Sleeping
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- BR40.4
- People
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Johann Friedrich Overbeck, German (Lübeck, Germany 1789 - 1869 Rome, Italy)
- Title
- The Five Foolish Virgins Sleeping
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Die Törichten Jungfrauen schlafend
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1860
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/225616
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, wash, and graphite on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
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image with border: 41.7 cm (16 7/16 in.)
sheet: 47.9 x 48 x 41.7 cm (18 7/8 x 18 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Henry Copley Greene
- Accession Year
- 1940
- Object Number
- BR40.4
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 210
Verification Level
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