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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1122
People
Alfred George Stevens, British (Blandford, England 1817 - 1875 London, England)
Title
Valour and Cowardice
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1863
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230215

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze, with dark brown over reddish brown patina
Technique
Lost-wax process
Dimensions
64.4 x 34.4 x 35 cm (25 3/8 x 13 9/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: proper left side of base: ALFRED STEVENS
  • inscription: back, chalk: No. 42 [removed by conservators, 1973]
  • inscription: proper right side of base, cast in: N. 5

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Ricketts and Charles Hazelwood Shannon, London, sold; [through Martin Birnbaum] to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1929, 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
1943.1122
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • 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. 192, pp. 427-430, 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. 192, pp. 440-443, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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