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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1895.694.2
People
Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, American (Fürth, Germany 1823 - 1909 Vienna, VA)
Title
Two Evangelists
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Apostles
Former Title: Crucifix with Four Saints and Apostles
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1865
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226867

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
81.2 x 37.8 cm (31 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: JOe [monogram]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Acquired by William Hayes Fogg, New York; his bequest to his wife, Mrs. William Hayes Fogg, 1884; her bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1895.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg
Accession Year
1895
Object Number
1895.694.2
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Maria Naylor, ed., The National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1861-1900 (New York, NY, 1973), vol. 2, p. 701
  • 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), p. 109, cat. 447, ill. p. 272
  • Kimberly Orcutt, "Personal Collecting Meets Institutional Vision: The Origins of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum", Journal of the History of Collections (2006), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 267-284, p. 270, p. 272
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), pp. 230, 358-61, cat. 324, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Annual Exhibition, 1865, National Academy of Design, New York, 04/27/1865 - 07/01/1865

Verification Level

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