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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1920.2
People
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
  • 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
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
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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in Boston and its Germanic Cultural Affinities: An Alternative Modernist Discourse on Art and Identity" (1998), Unpublished, vol. 2, p. 79, fig. 5-1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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