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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.15
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Capital with Acanthus Decoration
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Capital from Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon: Acanthus decoration
Classification
Architectural Elements
Work Type
architectural element
Date
1150-1175
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Avignon
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231273

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
30.6 x 25.6 x 26 cm (12 1/16 x 10 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Marius-André Garcin, Apt, France]. [1] Alphonse Kann, Paris. [2] [Joseph Brummer, New York, sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, 1930, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1934

Notes
[1] Per von Stockhausen, 1936
[2] Per Brummer invoice

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.15
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • R. de L. Brimo, "A Second Capital from Notre Dame des Doms at Avignon", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum (November 1935), vol. V, no. 1, pp. 9-11, pp. 9-11, figs. 1 and 2
  • Hans-Adelbert von Stockhausen, "Die Romanischen Kreuzgange der Provence: II. Teil: Die Plastik", Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft (1936), 8. Bd., pp. 89-171., pp. 125-126
  • Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art français, exh. cat., Petit Palais, Paris (Paris, France, 1937)
  • Arts of the Middle Ages, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1940), no. 165
  • Linda Seidel, "Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections. X: The Fogg Art Museum. II: The Rhône Valley, Provence, Languedoc, Western and Northern France", GESTA (1972), vol. XI, no. 2, pp. 62-63; cat. no. 3b, repr. b/w fig. 9
  • Walter Cahn and Linda Seidel, Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections, volume 1: New England Museums, Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, 1979), no. 18b, figs. 156-157

Exhibition History

  • Chefs d'oeuvres de l'art française, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, 01/01/1937 - 12/31/1937
  • Arts of the Middle Ages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/17/1940 - 03/24/1940

Verification Level

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