- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1993.264
- People
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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
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- 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
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- 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
- John Rewald, Gift to Agnes Mongan.
Agnes Mongan, Cambridge MA, From John Rewald, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1993.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- 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
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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
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Seurat Paintings and Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 01/16/1958 - 03/07/1958; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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
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