1925.36: Bust of Christ

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1925.36

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Bust of Christ

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Christ from a Crucifixion

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

bust, sculpture

Date

15th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231693

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wood with traces of white pigment

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

30.5 x 26.5 x 22.6 cm (12 x 10 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
with base: 42.6 x 26.5 x 22.6 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

René Gimpel, Paris, France, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1925.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of René Gimpel

Accession Year

1925

Object Number

1925.36

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Gothic Sculpture in American Collections: The Checklist: I: The New England Museums", GESTA, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman (1980), vol. XIX, no. 2, no. 4, repr.
• Anita F. Moskowitz, Gothic Sculpture in America, I: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy W. Gillerman, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, 1989), no. 122 p. 156, repr.
• Kathryn Brush, Vastly More than Brick and Mortar: Reinventing the Fogg Art Museum in the 1920s, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge MA / New Haven, CT, 2003), p. 33; repr. in 1926 photo, fig. 12, p. 32

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