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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.21.48
People
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers, French (Angers 1788 - 1856 Paris)
Title
The Fall of the Trocadero
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, album page
Date
1825-1827
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/292962

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk counterproof on white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 18.4 x 23.7 cm (7 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in black chalk at lower right (reversed): David
  • inscription: Inscribed in black chalk at lower center (reversed): Prise du Trocadero. Inscribed by Leclère in graphite at lower left: David; at lower center: Prise du Trocadero.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.21.48
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 (68)
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 79, repr.

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