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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1269
People
Unidentified Artist
After Jean-Antoine Houdon, French (Versailles, France 1741 - 1828 Paris, France)
Title
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, bust
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/229943

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
34 x 29.6 x 25 cm (13 3/8 x 11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
with base: 47.8 cm (18 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: proper right shoulder, cast in: houdon f 1778 [sic]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1269
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • [Reproduction only], "French Sculpture", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943)., repr. in b/w, p. 61
  • Washington, Lafayette, Franklin: Portraits, Books, Manuscripts, Prints, Memorabilia, for the Most Part from the Collections of the University, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1944), p. 28, cat. 55
  • Louise Todd Ambler, Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), pp. 84-85, 123, no. 47, ill. p. 84
  • Jeanne L. Wasserman, ed., Metamorphoses in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 10, p. 71; text, p. 73

Exhibition History

  • Washington Lafayette Franklin, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/22/1944 - 05/28/1944
  • Benjamin Franklin: A Perspective, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/17/1975 - 09/22/1975
  • Metamorphoses in 19th-Century Sculpture, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/19/1975 - 01/07/1976

Verification Level

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