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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.47.92
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Fragment of a Capital with Architectural Ornament
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Fragment of a Capital for an Engaged Column
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
c. 1125
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Mâcon
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229001

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Limestone
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
21.8 x 22.2 x 25 cm (8 9/16 x 8 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, Sold to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.47.92
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • "Auction", The New Yorker (April 12, 1958), pp. 36-37?, p. 37
  • Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections: IX: The William Hayes Fogg Art Museum: I: Burgundy", GESTA (1972), vol XI, no. 1, no. 2, repr.
  • Marilyn Stokstad, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. XV. Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas", Gesta (1977), vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 49-61, p. 51, under no. 4
  • Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 2, fig. 134
  • Christine Smith, ed., Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000, exh. cat., George Braziller (New York, NY, 2000), no. 24 in checklist; p. 30, repr. p. 37

Exhibition History

  • Harvard Day "Auction", Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/28/1958 - 03/28/1958
  • Before and After the End of Time: Architecture in the Year 1000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/26/2000 - 01/23/2001

Verification Level

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