1943.278: Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.278

People

Ary Scheffer, Dutch (Dordrecht Netherlands 1795 - 1858 Argenteuil France)

Title

Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Marquis de Lafayette / Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1822

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230115

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

55.3 x 36.8 cm (21 3/4 x 14 1/2 in.)
framed: 68 x 49.5 x 5.1 cm (26 3/4 x 19 1/2 x 2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Col. T. Connolly, 1893, by descent; to his wife, Mrs. Connolly, sold; to [E. F. Bonaventure Art Galleries, New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1918, 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

1943.278

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• 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. 48, cat. 104
• Agnes Mongan, Harvard Honors Lafayette, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975), no. 43, p. 120-122, repr. in b/w
• Leo Ewals, "Ary Scheffer: Sa vie et son oeuvre" (1987), Unpublished, pp. 59, 400
• 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. 129, repr. as no. 196
• Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 127, pp. 302-304, repr. in color
• Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 127, pp. 310-311, repr. in color

Exhibition History

• Exposition Universelle internationale, art contemporain 1878-1889, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 05/06/1889 - 11/06/1889
• World's Columbian Exposition, World's Columbian Exposition site, Chicago, 05/01/1893 - 10/26/1893
• Exposition Universelle de 1900, Exposition de Paris, Paris, 04/15/1900 - 11/12/1900
• Washington Lafayette Franklin, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/22/1944 - 05/28/1944
• Harvard Honors Lafayette, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/03/1975 - 03/12/1976
• A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
• For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
• World’s Fairs, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/10/2015

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