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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1915.25
People
Angelo Asti, French (Paris 1847 - 1903 Mantua)
Title
Bust of a Young Woman
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Bust of a Young Girl / Head of a Girl
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1880
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/232035

Physical Descriptions

Dimensions
50.17 x 42.23 cm (19 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l. in red paint: A. Asti 80
  • label: back of frame, paper: C. Clackner C. Clackner London New York / No. 7 West 28th Street / New York [with emblem of angel and printing press].
  • inscription: back of canvas, ink, stencilled: [illeg.] / Tableaux / REY & PERROD / [illeg.] / PARIS
  • (not assigned): on back of canvas, stencilled: 8

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Cyrus E. Fields, New York, sold [through his sale, James P. Silo, January 1893]; to Edward Detraz Bettens, gift; to the Louise E. Bettens Fund, 1915

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward D. Bettens to the Louise E. Bettens Fund
Accession Year
1915
Object Number
1915.25
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), pp. 98, 364, repr. b/w cat. no. 797

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