1920.2: The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.2
- People
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Unidentified Artist
After Hans Holbein the Younger, German (Augsburg, Germany 1497/98 - 1543 London, England)
- Title
- The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 19th-20th century
- Culture
- Unidentified culture
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231689
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35.2 x 198.6 cm (13 7/8 x 78 3/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: stretcher and back of frame, black ink, handwritten: [two identical labels with red border:] E135
- label: back of frame, black ink, printed: LE DUC [partial label, the rest torn away]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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The Ehrich Galleries, New York, NY, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Ehrich Brothers
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.2
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- 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. 111, not repr.
- Judith A. Bookbinder, "Figurative Expressionism in Boston and its Germanic Cultural Affinities: An Alternative Modernist Discourse on Art and Identity" (1998), Unpublished, vol. 2, p. 79, fig. 5-1
- Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), pp. 126-127, fig. 4.1
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