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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1934.145
People
Frederic Millet, French (Charlieu, France 1786 - 1859 Paris, France)
Title
Ellen Brainerd Pike (Mrs. Robert Gordon Pike) (1823-1891)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1853
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231342

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
sight: 5.7 x 4.4 cm (2 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: r. edge: F'ic Millet 1853
  • inscription: back of case, engraved: Mother/Ellen M. Pike/May 11, 1823-March 3, 1891/Grace G. Pike.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth E. and K.G. Pike, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1934. Subject was mother of donors

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Misses Elizabeth E. and K. G. Pike in memory of their father, Judge Robert Gordon Pike of Middletown, Connecticut, Class of 1843
Accession Year
1934
Object Number
1934.145
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002

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