1939.95: Le Malefice
PaintingsAt center, a young woman with pale skin and long wavy brown hair stands facing us, dressed in a loose fitting white blouse and a long blue skirt. An older woman with medium dark skin, stands just behind her shoulder at left, wearing a red cloak over her head and shoulders. She gestures with one hand while leaning in to whisper into the ear of the younger woman, who looks downward with her mouth partly open and her hand held at her chest in front of her. They stand in a clearing near dense trees, as a cloud passes across the full moon in the night sky.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1939.95
- People
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Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, French (Bordeaux 1807 - 1876 Menton)
- Title
- Le Malefice
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: The Evil Spell / Two Women in a Landscape
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1875
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230644
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on cradled panel
- Dimensions
- 31.7 x 24.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.l.: N. Diaz-75
- inscription: on back of frame, in graphite: C2
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- M. Le Grand, sold [through Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 22, 1902]. [Edward Brandus, Paris], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1903, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.95
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- "Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, ed. Edward Waldo Forbes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1939), vol. 9, no. 1, November, p. 19, p. 19
- 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. 105; repr. no. 301
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