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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R4252
People
Antoine Marcenay de Ghuy, French (1724 - 1811)
After Nicolas Poussin, French (Les Andelys, France 1594 - 1665 Rome, Italy)
Title
Testament of Eudamidas
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Testament d'Eudamidas
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1762
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/241067

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Image: 21.5 × 31.7 cm (8 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Plate: 26.4 × 33.8 cm (10 3/8 × 13 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 29.6 × 37.3 cm (11 5/8 × 14 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Le Blanc, vol. 2 no. 2, p. 599

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R4252
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 33

Exhibition History

  • Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999

Verification Level

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