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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.27
People
Joseph II Cellony, French (Aix-en-Provence 1730 - 1786 Aix-en-Provence)
Previously attributed to Charles-Antoine Coypel, French (Paris 1694 - 1752 Paris)
Title
Death of Sophonisba
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292914

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, brown and gray wash, and white gouache over red chalk on cream antique laid paper, pricked for transfer around oval framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
35.5 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: bottom left, black ink: Coypel f.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Daniel Katz, London, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 1996, inv. no. D-F-420, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1999, inv. no. 1999.27

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.27
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.61, p. 413

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