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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.29
People
Charles-François Hutin, French (Paris 1715 - 1776 Dresden)
Title
Feeding the Hungry
Other Titles
Former Title: St. Cecilia Distributing Alms
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292439

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk and red-chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, partial framing lines in red chalk and brown ink, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
22.1 × 16.3 cm (8 11/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 67 [encircled]
  • watermark: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marcel-Louis Guérin, Paris (his mark, L.s.1872b, lower right); unidentified collector (their mark, not in Lugt, lower right); Galerie Éric Coatalem, Paris; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (by 1996; inv. no. D-F-434); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.29
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), cat. no. A.163, p. 419
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 78, repr.

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