1999.19: First Project for the Funerary Monument of Cardinal de Fleury

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1999.19

People

Edme Bouchardon, French (Chaumont-en-Bassigny 1698 - 1762 Paris)

Title

First Project for the Funerary Monument of Cardinal de Fleury

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1743

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/292909

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk on light-tan antique laid paper, joined and pieced with the artist's corrections on seven additional irregular pieces of the same paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on a Mariette mount

Dimensions

43 × 30.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: None
• inscription: mount, bottom center, black ink, Latin: (by Mariette mounter): Herc. Cardi. de Fleury Tumulus quem jubente Rege adornare incohaverat
• inscription: mount cartouche, bottom center, black ink, Latin: (by Mariette mounter): EDMUNDUS/ BOUCHARDON/ SCULPTOR REGIS/ ANNO MDCCXL
• inscription: mount, bottom edge, left, black chalk: (by a later hand): 191
• inscription: mount, bottom edge, right, black ink: (by a later hand): 69
• collector's mark: lower right, black ink: M [encircled [Lugt 1852, mark of Pierre-Jean Mariette]
• collector's mark: bottom right edge of mount, black ink: F. H. No. [handwritten:] 189 [Lugt 1015, mark of Prosper Flury-Hérard]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (his mark, L.1852); his estate sale, Basan, Paris, 30 January, 1776, part of lot 1120, sold; to Avaulez; Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon de Fabergoules, Aix-en-Provence, sold; to Charles-Joseph-Barthélémy Giraud, Aix-en-Provence, sold; to Prosper Flury-Hérard, Paris (his mark, L.1015); his sale, Delbergue-Cormot, Paris, 13 May 1861, lot 42, sold; to Blaisot; sale, Christie’s, London, July 4, 1995, lot 121, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.19

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1999

Object Number

1999.19

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue raisonné des différens objets de curiosités dans les sciences et arts, qui composient le Cabinet de feu M. Mariette..., auct. cat. (Paris, 1775-1776), cat. no. 1120, p. 173
• Catalogue de beaux dessins anciens des maitres Italiens, Flamnds, Hollandais et Francais due XVe au XVIIIe siècle, auct. cat. (Paris, 1861), cat. no. 42, p. 8
• 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. A.35, p. 411
• Guilhem Scherf, "Dessins de sculpteurs: quelques feuilles de Bouchardon, Vassé, Pajou et Gois", Augustin Pajou et ses contemporains, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1999), colloquium proceedings (1997), pp. 404, 411-n.5, 418
• James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 55, repr.
• James Cuno, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report, 1998-99, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2000), p. 25, repr.
• Pierre Rosenberg and Laure Barthélemy-Labeeuw, Les dessins de la collection Mariette: école française, Electa (Milan, 2011), vol. 1, no. F 441, p. 143
• 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. 213, p.p. 341-43
• 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. 213, pp. 341-43
• 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. 67, repr.

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
• 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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