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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.264
People
Georges Pierre Seurat, French (Paris 1859 - 1891 Paris)
After Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
Title
Male Nude, for Alexander the Great, after Ingres
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Male Nude (Alexander), after Ingres
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1878
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264860

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream laid paper, laid down to off-white wove paper (platemark on secondary support)
Dimensions
34.1 x 20.1 cm (13 7/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 34 x 20
  • inscription: verso, blue pencil: Dessin de G. Seurat
  • inscription: verso, brown pencil: T. S.
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Homme nu, bras droit plié couché au corps, bras gauche pendant / Copie d'un dessin d'Ingres' Homiere; Etude pour Alexandre le Grand / Musée de Montauban
  • inscription: verso, u.r., graphite: [J?] 6 [J?]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Rewald, Gift to Agnes Mongan.
Agnes Mongan, Cambridge MA, From John Rewald, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1993.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.264
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Seurat, Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL, 1958), no. 6
  • Kunstverein Hamburg, Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Seurat, exh. cat. (Hamburg, Germany, 1963), no. 105; repr. pl. 116

Exhibition History

  • Seurat Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 01/16/1958 - 03/07/1958; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/24/1958 - 05/11/1958
  • Wegbereiter der modernen Malerei: Cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, 05/04/1963 - 07/14/1963

Verification Level

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