1943.211: The Denunciation of Adam and Eve

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.211

People

George Frederic Watts, British (London, England 1817 - 1904 Limnerslease, Compton, England)
Frame by M. Grieve Co.

Title

The Denunciation of Adam and Eve

Other Titles

Alternate Title: The Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1873-c. 1898

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230062

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

150.81 x 66.36 cm (59 3/8 x 26 1/8 in.)
framed: 167.01 x 82.23 x 6.99 cm (65 3/4 x 32 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: G F Watts

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Sir Edmund Davis, 1899. [Christie's, no. 92], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, 1939 [through Martin Birnbaum], bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.211

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• T. Martin Wood, "The Edmund Davis Collection--II", The International Studio (June 1915), vol. LXV, no. 267, pp. 3-17, p. 241, ill. p. 239
• [Review of the Christie's sale], The London Times (London, England, July 8, 1939)
• Sale of Pictures and Drawings, the Property of the Late Sir Edmund Davis, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, England, July 7, 1939), no. 92
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 103
• Allen Staley, Victorian High Renaissance, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN, 1978), p. 82
• 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. 133, repr. as no. 76
• Francesca Mitchell, "Technical Study of the Paintings by George Frederic Watts in the Collection at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, July 1990), Unpublished, pp. 1-22 passim
• Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), pp. 142-143, cat. #37, color repr.
• Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant, G.F. Watts: Victorian Visionary, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven/London, 2008), under no. 35, p. 168

Exhibition History

• Winter Exhibition: Works by the Late George Frederick Watts, R.A., O.M. and the Late Frederick Sandys, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 10/01/1905 - 12/31/1905
• Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
• The Pre-Raphaelites: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1980 - 07/15/1980
• Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights

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