1999.22: Standing Male Nude with Folded Arms

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.22

People

Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)
Previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, French (Paris 1714 - 1789 Paris)

Title

Standing Male Nude with Folded Arms

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292907

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper, with blue wove paper borders adhered to face

Dimensions

36.3 x 20.4 cm (14 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: None
• inscription: bottom left, black ink: (by a later hand): J. B. M. Pierre
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink: baron Roger Portalis (L. 2232)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Baron Roger Portalis (Lugt 2232), Paris. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1990, lot 147 (as Pierre)]. [Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, lot 238], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.22

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 34, p. 411
• Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Drawing Time", October, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 2015), no. 151, Winter, pp. 3-42, pp. 15-16, repr.
• Anne-Lise Desmas, Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, and Juliette Trey, Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment, exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2016), cat. no. 62, pp. 149-150, repr. p. 150
• Anne-Lise Desmas, Edouard Kopp, Guilhem Scherf, and Juliette Trey, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre Éditions (Paris, 2016), cat. no. 62, pp. 149-150, repr. p. 150
• Guilhem Scherf and Juliette Trey, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau [exhibition brochure], brochure, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2016), repr. p. 14 as fig. 11
• Edouard Kopp, The Learned Draftsman: Edme Bouchardon, Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2017), p. 7, repr. p. 6 as fig. 4, repr. p. 7 as fig. 5 (detail)

Exhibition History

• HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
• Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762): une idée du beau, Musée du Louvre, Paris Cedex 01, 09/14/2016 - 12/05/2016; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 01/10/2017 - 04/02/2017

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