- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.234
- People
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Pierre Andrieu, French (1821 - 1892)
After Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
Previously Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, French (Charenton Saint-Maurice France 1798 - 1863 Paris France)
- Title
- Peace Descending to Earth
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230402
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 46.3 x 48 x 17.75 cm (18 1/4 x 18 7/8 x 7 in.)
- Provenance
- Eugene Delacroix (c. 1851-1864) sold; [his posthumous sale, Drouot, Paris, 17-19 Kune, 1864, no. 31?]. [George Petit, Paris, January 23, 1882, no. 18?]. [George Petit, Paris, February 3, 1883]. Mme Ernest Chausson, ( - 1936), sold; [her sale, Drouot, Paris, June 5, 1936, no. 28] sold; [via Martin Birnbaum];to renville L. WInthrop (1936-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.234
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 10
Pierre Georgel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Delacroix, Flammarion (Paris, France, 1975), p. 124, no. 601
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)
- Exhibition History
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Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
Masterpieces of European Art, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 06/22/1985 - 09/15/1985
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