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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.21.46
People
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, French (Angers 1788 - 1856 Paris)
Title
A Project for a Bas-Relief for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1826
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292441

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on pale gray modern laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 16.1 x 30.1 cm (6 5/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: watermark: Scallop shell. Inscribed by Leclère in graphite on album sheet at right: David Statuaire 1826. Inscribed in brown ink on album sheet at right: dessin du bas relief en platre / placé a l'arc de triomphe des / Tuileries, detruit par le desordre / populaire, en aout 1830. Inscribed in graphite on album sheet at upper center: fountainbleau; immediately above drawing: anne 1818 / en Bois et pour fountainbleau; at upper right: 1 chose faite / par David a son / retour de Rom

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.21.46
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Architecture and the Achille Leclère-Ingres Sketchbook, Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. (New York, 1964), no. 124 (66), repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 78, repr.

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